Senior Network Engineer (Enterprise) (Aerospace)

Location: Torrance, California, United States. The role supports corporate facilities and hybrid cloud environments. U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status is required to conform with ITAR export regulations, and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance is required.

Salary: $133,000–$215,000 per year, plus equity, discretionary performance bonuses, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a space infrastructure company building a global network of phased-array ground stations for real-time satellite communications supporting national security, global connectivity, and disaster response.

What you will do

• Design and build LAN infrastructure for corporate offices and facilities, including switching, routing, VLANs, wireless networks, and segmentation.
• Implement zero-trust architecture, microsegmentation, identity-aware access controls, and least-privilege network policies.
• Deploy and manage FortiGate firewalls and Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels for secure remote access, site-to-site connectivity, and traffic inspection.
• Design hybrid connectivity between on-premises facilities, AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud, and Cloudflare's backbone.
• Build network monitoring, observability, automation, documentation, and configuration-management processes.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams on compliance evidence, incident response, scaling, and identity-integrated access policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of enterprise networking experience, or 7+ years of experience without a degree.
• Production experience with enterprise switching, routing, VLAN design, network segmentation, and enterprise wireless infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience managing FortiGate firewalls, zero-trust architectures, microsegmentation, and identity-aware access controls.
• Experience with AWS, AWS GovCloud, or multi-cloud networking, including hybrid connectivity and private networking.
• Hands-on experience with Cloudflare Zero Trust, tunnels, and DNS, plus network monitoring, automation, and troubleshooting tools.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance and meet U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Active TS clearance or higher.
• Experience with Ansible, NetBox, Okta, or Azure Active Directory.
• CCNP, ACNP, or equivalent enterprise networking certification.
• Background in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, or regulated government-adjacent industries.
• Knowledge of ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and DFARS requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity and long-term incentives, including company stock options and discretionary performance bonuses.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage with flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible time off and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Retirement savings plans and professional development opportunities.
• Work supporting space communications systems with real-world national security, connectivity, and disaster-response applications.