Network Automation Engineer (Starshield)

NETWORK AUTOMATION ENGINEER (STARSHIELD)

Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. The Starshield team is building highly reliable in-space mesh networks, designing secure systems to guarantee access to space, designing next-gen communication and sensing software, and more

As a Network Automation Engineer you will help create the tooling to expand and monitor the Starshield service provider network. You and your teammates will own the design and implementation of these tools and monitoring strategies all while continually improving existing processes and tools. You will be helping provide visibility into a network that supports critical national security missions and will be challenged to maintain critical systems and services.

RESPONSIBILITES:

• Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale a global networking service to government customers.
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable infrastructure
• Measure, maintain, and improve the uptime and performance of the terrestrial network
• Act as technical product owner for infrastructure tools and software used in the ground network (Access, Backbone and Edge Networks)