Network engineer

Network Engineer

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Technology

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -102025-104086

Date Posted: 10/15/2025

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Description:

We are looking for a Network Engineer to join our Viasat Government group! In this exciting role, you will be responsible for supporting the design, maintenance, and modernization of a critical global satellite communications system! You will be updating the network equipment hardware and software in both a lab and production environment. This includes auditing equipment health, identifying faulted units, troubleshooting faults, ordering, tracking, installing, and configuring replacement parts, as well as identifying and patching IA vulnerabilities. Your duties will include making design changes to datacenter racks to modernize the existing equipment and/or replace end of life parts. You will also be working with vendors to get quotes for new parts for the system. Part of your duties may require travel to deploy new datacenter racks and/or perform maintenance on those racks. Other engineering support duties may include analysis and remediation of networking hardware, operating system, and software security vulnerabilities and documentation of the remediation process.

Pay Rate: $70 - $75 an hour

Location: San Diego, CA (Open to Remote)

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Responsibilities:

• Install, design, and troubleshoot LANs and WANs with IPSEC tunnels on all layers of the OSI stack.

• Configure, test, troubleshoot and patch modern network routers, switches and firewalls on Cisco, Fortinet and Palo Alto devices

• Maintenance of datacenter rack equipment including servers, network equipment, RF equipment, ethernet and power cables etc.

• Design, test, and deployment of EOL replacement devices to the ground segment of a global communications network.

• Supporting engineering efforts for IA remediation of network equipment and applicable software.

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working with TCP/IP network design and troubleshooting, Linux systems, Satcom systems, etc

• 3+ years of experience working with satellite communication server racks and equipment

• Relevant networking certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Network+, Security+, etc

• Work experience with procuring and setting up networking and communication systems, RF equipment and peripherals such as ethernet and power cables, PDUs, etc

What will help you on the job

• Experience with network design and device qualification.

• Experience with online network device updates and IA patches.

• Experience with live production network troubleshooting and maintaining SLAs.

• Server room management and maintenance experience.

• Some work experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack etc.

• Some experience working with various test tracking and bug tracking tools such as Jama and Jira.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, a related field of study or equivalent years of experience

• Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident with the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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