Senior Network Engineer

Location: Hanscom AFB, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States; in office/on base five days a week

Salary: $165,000–$185,000 per year, depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global supports the Survivable Airborne Operations Center program, a major defense acquisition program developing and delivering the replacement fleet for the E-4B National Airborne Operations Center.

What you will do

• Review and evaluate airborne command and control network architecture plans for the SAOC program.
• Analyze aircraft network plans and architecture from the prime contractor and provide recommendations to government engineering leadership.
• Validate mission systems from a holistic network architecture perspective and develop validation criteria and procedures.
• Design and conduct network-level tests to verify subsystem and system performance against approved specifications.
• Support systems engineering, technical training, acquisition, integration, sustainment, deployment, installation, and operations oversight.
• Conduct trade studies and proposal analyses covering technical feasibility, compatibility, cost, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule.

Requirements

• Active Secret U.S. security clearance is required.
• Engineering degree and at least 15 years of systems/network engineering or weapon systems development experience, including 8 years supporting DoD acquisition contracts; alternatively, 20 years of engineering experience, including 10 years supporting the DoD.
• Experience with network security across multiple security classification levels.
• Progressive experience in network engineering development projects, including engineering documentation, design changes, notices, and design audits.
• Experience supporting government ownership of a program technical baseline.

Nice to have

• Experience with tactical, operational, or strategic communications networks.
• Experience with major aircraft development programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time salaried position supporting a major defense acquisition program.
• Work is performed on site at Hanscom AFB five days per week.