Job Description
See what you’re missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too.
Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.
In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you’ll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions.
Embark on a journey of innovation with BAE Systems' Platform Engineering group, where we seek a self-motivated Network Engineer. In this role, you will be at the forefront of implementing robust, scalable, and highly available network solutions. We are looking for a Network specialist with experience in network architecture, implementation, and operations. The PE Network specialists are at the forefront of implementing robust and advanced network infrastructure across a multi-region private cloud. The PE Network specialist will work closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) members as well as specialists from the Operations, Platform DevOps, and Security teams to architect, implement, evolve, and maintain the next generation Platform Engineering network.
Our organization provides an enterprise grade engineering development environment so engineers can rapidly experiment and prototype new technologies. Your responsibility extends beyond solving existing problems; it's about anticipating and addressing future capacity, demand, and technological needs. We believe in investing in our people and training is available to achieve appropriate vendor certifications for the role.
Key Responsibilities:

• Engineering and Design
  • Architect and build complex multi-site, multi-tenant networks, which enforce traffic segregation and isolation
  • Define and execute service outages, changes, disaster recovery plans, reference architectures, incident root causes, and best practices
  • Maintain current documentation for network infrastructure and architecture
• Operations and support
  • Leverage network orchestration technologies like Juniper Apstra or Cisco vManage
  • Install, configure, maintain, and decommission data center networking infrastructure
  • Use routing protocols like BGP or OSPF to interconnect networks, and to build highly available datacenter services
  • Operate in a mixed hardware environment, working with diverse product vendors
• Incident Response
  • Actively participate in incident response and root-cause analysis and support a blameless post-mortem culture
  • Proactively troubleshoot complex issues that arise on the development and interconnected networks
  • Automation
  • Automate network operations, to increase efficiency, enforce standard configurations, and ensure repeatability with tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Python
  • Work in a DevOps style automation pipeline

Please note that pursuant to a government contract, the specific positions requires US citizenship status.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Must be able to obtain a Security or equivalent security certification within 6 months of starting
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex network problems in a production environment
• Ability to independently research solutions to problems and propose viable solutions
• Ability to work with multiple teams to accomplish complex tasks
• Comfortable working with multiple vendors in a heterogeneous environment

• Familiarity with at least one on-premises virtualization platform (i.e., VMware, OneStack, Azure Stack)
• Experience with LAN switching technologies such as VLANS, spanning tree, and ether-channel
• Capable of configuring network routing protocols such as Static OSPF & BGP
• Experience working with data center network technologies, such as DMZs, high availability, and spine-leaf fabrics
• Comfortable with Firewall routing, policy, and inspection
• Experience with various WAN technologies such as MPLS and Ethernet
• Familiarity with configuring and managing NAT devices
• Experience with IP-Sec VPNs and GRE

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Security or equivalent certification
• Familiarity with networking requirements for high performance storage systems
• Experience with network virtualization and SD-WAN
• A basic knowledge of programming languages like Python
• Understand EVPN-VXLAN overlay architectures
• Experience with VMware network architectures
• Use of data center orchestration technologies such as Apstra
• Familiarity with multicast and anycast technologies

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $92290 - $156860
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Electronic Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At BAE Systems, we work hard every day to nurture an inclusive culture where employees are valued and feel like they belong. We are conscious of the need for all employees to see themselves reflected at every level of the company and know that in order to unlock the full potential of our workforce, everyone must feel confident being their best, most sincere self and be equipped to thrive. We provide impactful professional development experiences to our employees and invest in social impact partnerships to uplift communities and drive purposeful change. Here you will find significant opportunities to do meaningful work in an environment intentionally designed to be one where you will learn, grow and belong.