Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for its Infrastructure Operations team. The role owns on-premises and cloud networking supporting mission-critical Next-Generation 911 services, including network engineering, architecture, automation, reliability, and operational escalation.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on Network Engineering: Provide extensive support for network architecture, deployments, software upgrades, life-cycle management & troubleshooting across our development and production environments. Provide technical direction and establish engineering standards across multi-vendor platforms
- Technical Strategy and Architecture: Contribute to defining long-term infrastructure strategy and lead implementation initiatives that improve scalability, security, automation, and operational efficiency
- Operational Leadership: Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex operational issues, critical incidents, and major infrastructure upgrades. Drive resolution efforts while ensuring high availability, resiliency, and reliability for mission-critical NG911 services
- Technical Mentorship: Mentor and guide engineers across the organization by promoting engineering best practices, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing
- Optimization & Reliability:Identify network bottlenecks, resiliency gaps, and performance improvement opportunities across production environments. Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to implement scalable and sustainable solutions
- Automation: Develop and enhance network automation, monitoring, and operational tools using Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting methodologies
- On-Call Support: Participate in the Network Engineering on-call rotation and provide leadership during high-severity incidents within a 24x7 mission-critical environment
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise and carrier-grade networking technologies including Cisco and Juniper routing/switching platforms, Juniper / Palo Alto firewalls and F5 or Citrix load balancing solutions
- Deep understanding of networking protocols including BGP, OSPF, MPLS, SD-WAN, route redistribution, traffic engineering, and high-availability network design and implementation
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud networking environments, with a solid understanding of AWS networking services, cloud connectivity, routing, network segmentation, and security principles
- A track record of solving complex technical problems in a collaborative, fast-paced setting
- Self-driven leader with strong ownership mindset, capable of working independently, driving initiatives to completion, and making sound technical decisions in high-pressure situations
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly present technical concepts, recommendations, and operational impacts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, with 8–10 years of hands-on experience in network engineering, preferably in large-scale enterprise or service provider environments
- Network: CCNP, JNCIP (CCIE / JNCIE preferred), or equivalent advanced networking certifications are required
- Cloud: AWS Practitioner or higher-level cloud certifications
- Specialized: Advanced experience with Cisco and Juniper routing/switching platforms, Palo Alto firewalls (including Panorama), and F5 or Citrix load balancers
- Experience with network automation, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, or APIs is highly desirable
- CCIE / JNCIE
Benefits
- Remote work is OK.
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