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The Company: Lightyear builds software that is revolutionizing the telecom management experience for hundreds of enterprises. Lightyear’s first-of-its-kind platform helps enterprise IT teams automate telecom procurement, network inventory management, telecom bill payment, and much more, and is utilized by companies including Honeywell, Alo Yoga, Palo Alto Networks, and Louis Vuitton. Lightyear has raised nearly $50M from the first investors in Roblox, Discord, Coupang, Robinhood, and Flexport.

The Position : As a Network Solutions Engineer at Lightyear you will play a critical role in growing Lightyear’s revenue by helping customers solve network engineering problems. You will review technical aspects of Lightyear customer network service orders, assist customers in designing telecom solutions, and ensure an optimal network procurement and implementation experience. The ideal candidate for this role will have a demonstrated passion for network engineering and / or telecom solutions engineering.
 

This role will come with a highly-competitive compensation package that will be customized for the candidate’s experience, preferences, and goals.  The total compensation range for this position is estimated to be between $110-125k plus equity.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Design & Implementation: Assist with the design and implementation of customer networks, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency across solutions spanning Internet / WAN connectivity, Voice, and Colocation.
• System Optimization: Analyze and improve existing Lightyear platform process and services for the ideal customer experience. 
• Collaboration: Work with Sales, Implementation Specialists, and other internal stakeholders to align technical designs with business needs.
• Compliance & Standards: Ensure all designs and implementations adhere to industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Innovation & Research: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
   

Ideal Qualifications
 

• 4+ years of technical or engineering experience in telecom, networking, voice, data center, and / or adjacent technical solutions
• Proficiency in network architecture and design, fiber optics, wireless technologies, optical wavelengths, SD-WAN, and other adjacent telecom solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
• Deep understanding of carrier network operations and processes with hands-on experience around configuration, testing, turn-up, and deployment
• Excellent communication skills to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Industry-relevant certifications are a bonus

ManTech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Network Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA . This is a position requiring onsite work at customer locations within the local area (up to 10% travel).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Designing and integrating comprehensive network, VoIP, VTC, and data center solutions, adhering to security guidelines and customer specifications to ensure robust and secure communication infrastructures.
• Managing the end-to-end integration of black and red networks, overseeing design, installation, maintenance, and coordination of a growing network with multiple external services to support operational needs.
• Diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to customer sites, telecommunications circuits, routing, switching, VoIP, VTC, network encryption devices, and Cisco data center/security to maintain network stability and performance.
• Developing and maintaining detailed documentation, diagrams, and standard operating procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and efficient network management.
• Providing expert guidance, training, and support to network administrators, service desk personnel, and junior engineers to enhance team capabilities and operational effectiveness.
   

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or equivalent field, demonstrating a strong academic foundation in related disciplines.
• 8-10 years of extensive experience in networking, including VoIP, VTC, data circuits, network encryption devices (e.g., General Dynamics TACLANE), and virtualization technologies.
• Proficiency in dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP, with a deep understanding of MPLS and DMVPN Hub and Spoke technology for efficient network routing.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification: Security+CE and Computing Environment (CE) certification in Cisco technology (CCNA Voice) required.
• Valid US Driver's License with the ability to travel up to 10% locally to customer sites.
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cisco Collaboration, Data Center, or Security certifications, indicating advanced expertise and specialized knowledge in relevant Cisco technologies.
• Experience implementing or troubleshooting VMware NSX-T virtualized networking and security platform developed by VMware.  It enables automated implementation of network policies, network objects, isolation, and micro-segmentation.
   

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI polygraph.
   

Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, and or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

Iridium is seeking an experienced satellite Network Orchestration Architect with experience working on U.S. Government (USG) or commercial satellite programs to join our team and contribute to a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Network Orchestration Architect for an innovative USG satellite program, you'll work with senior technical and management colleagues, development teams and the customer to establish strategic plans and objectives as it relates to execution of this crucial satellite ground development program. In this role, you will focus on the overall technical solutions and integration of various technologies and operational demands. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy the challenge of new, emerging network orchestration technologies and their applications to new missions.

This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).

Architect and design a robust and fault-tolerant network orchestration capability to support rapidly changing topologies, provide network routing control, and support dynamic bandwidth management while conforming to customer network specifications
• Be responsible for ensuring resolution of critical technical network orchestration architecture issues across program/project and product lifecycles
• Build and manage network models and simulators that integrate operational products to inform network orchestration design
• Work independently to design and deploy scalable network devices, including automated route distribution methods using frameworks such as Netconf, Yang, and Ansible
• Contribute to the documentation necessary for the maintenance and operations of Network Infrastructure systems to support Local Area Networks and Government furnished Wide Area Networks, across multiple sites
• Guide multi-disciplinary technical development teams ranging in size from 5 to 20 engineers
• Support proposals/new business as the lead network architecture technical contributor
• Lead, communicate, and coordinate critical technical events, accomplishments, and issues to facilitate appropriate subject matter expert engagement
• Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Support-team related to network traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and System performance problems
• Ensure system architectures are following technical standards, effective engineering processes, mission assurance, design assurance, quality, audit, and internal integration, test and verification activities

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• 12+ years demonstrated Network Orchestration experience with a proven track record
• Strong communication, leadership and relationship-building skills to operate a solution-minded and efficient team while driving consensus across stakeholders
• Fluency with network products, services, protocols, and standards and experience transforming innovative network technologies into deployed capabilities, while meeting government security requirements
• Detailed knowledge of routing protocols and use of Netconf/YANG to manage MPLS networks
• Experience developing network architectures and network orchestration for a highly automated software centric system
• Be a creative and strategic thinker who demonstrates decisiveness and the ability to analyze a situation, generate and evaluate solutions, and provide constructive feedback to team members and management
• Experience in the design and creation of detailed network and data flow diagrams for presentation to various levels from experienced technical contributors to executive teams

• Network Orchestration engineer certifications like Cisco's CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, CISSP, and CCIE, along with CompTIA Network+, and cloud-specific certifications like AWS Certified Advanced Networking and Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate, are highly valuable
• Other Relevant Certifications that would be advantageous such as Juniper JNCIP, and JNCIA
• Government or commercial network and mission operations experience including procedure development, training, transition planning, installation, and deployment
• Experience developing CONOPS / OPSCON for managing critical real-time satellite-based mesh networks
• Hands on experience necessary to manage and maintaining Juniper and/or Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and other vendors networking technologies
• Ability to provide real-time troubleshooting and problem resolution for escalated issues on a limited basis as required
• Competency in briefing engineering efforts to both internal and government customers
• Agile development experience
• Cost estimation experience

• Be available to support operations as a technical expert on an as-needed basis
• Be able to travel up to 10%
• Be a U.S. citizen

This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

Iridium is seeking an experienced satellite Network Orchestration Architect with experience working on U.S. Government (USG) or commercial satellite programs to join our team and contribute to a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Network Orchestration Architect for an innovative USG satellite program, you'll work with senior technical and management colleagues, development teams and the customer to establish strategic plans and objectives as it relates to execution of this crucial satellite ground development program. In this role, you will focus on the overall technical solutions and integration of various technologies and operational demands. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy the challenge of new, emerging network orchestration technologies and their applications to new missions.

This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).

Architect and design a robust and fault-tolerant network orchestration capability to support rapidly changing topologies, provide network routing control, and support dynamic bandwidth management while conforming to customer network specifications
• Be responsible for ensuring resolution of critical technical network orchestration architecture issues across program/project and product lifecycles
• Build and manage network models and simulators that integrate operational products to inform network orchestration design
• Work independently to design and deploy scalable network devices, including automated route distribution methods using frameworks such as Netconf, Yang, and Ansible
• Contribute to the documentation necessary for the maintenance and operations of Network Infrastructure systems to support Local Area Networks and Government furnished Wide Area Networks, across multiple sites
• Guide multi-disciplinary technical development teams ranging in size from 5 to 20 engineers
• Support proposals/new business as the lead network architecture technical contributor
• Lead, communicate, and coordinate critical technical events, accomplishments, and issues to facilitate appropriate subject matter expert engagement
• Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Support-team related to network traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and System performance problems
• Ensure system architectures are following technical standards, effective engineering processes, mission assurance, design assurance, quality, audit, and internal integration, test and verification activities

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• 12+ years demonstrated Network Orchestration experience with a proven track record
• Strong communication, leadership and relationship-building skills to operate a solution-minded and efficient team while driving consensus across stakeholders
• Fluency with network products, services, protocols, and standards and experience transforming innovative network technologies into deployed capabilities, while meeting government security requirements
• Detailed knowledge of routing protocols and use of Netconf/YANG to manage MPLS networks
• Experience developing network architectures and network orchestration for a highly automated software centric system
• Be a creative and strategic thinker who demonstrates decisiveness and the ability to analyze a situation, generate and evaluate solutions, and provide constructive feedback to team members and management
• Experience in the design and creation of detailed network and data flow diagrams for presentation to various levels from experienced technical contributors to executive teams

• Network Orchestration engineer certifications like Cisco's CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, CISSP, and CCIE, along with CompTIA Network+, and cloud-specific certifications like AWS Certified Advanced Networking and Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate, are highly valuable
• Other Relevant Certifications that would be advantageous such as Juniper JNCIP, and JNCIA
• Government or commercial network and mission operations experience including procedure development, training, transition planning, installation, and deployment
• Experience developing CONOPS / OPSCON for managing critical real-time satellite-based mesh networks
• Hands on experience necessary to manage and maintaining Juniper and/or Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and other vendors networking technologies
• Ability to provide real-time troubleshooting and problem resolution for escalated issues on a limited basis as required
• Competency in briefing engineering efforts to both internal and government customers
• Agile development experience
• Cost estimation experience

• Be available to support operations as a technical expert on an as-needed basis
• Be able to travel up to 10%
• Be a U.S. citizen

This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Iron Bow Technologies is for people who believetrust is paramount,transformation is embraced, andthe future is here,because "What we do matters !"

We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on ourpassionate people ,long standing partnerships , andstrategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges.

Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first. It's The Iron Bow Way.

THE HIGH LEVEL

The Solutions Architect is a mission-driven technical leader within Iron Bow's Engagement Engineering team, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise network solutions. This role emphasizes post-sales delivery excellence, while also supporting pre-sales efforts through architecture validation, solution scoping, and deliverable development.

As a key member of the engineering organization, this architect works closely with Engagement Engineers, PMO, and Technical Director leadership to ensure high-quality, compliant solutions are delivered that meet customer mission needs, budget constraints, and operational timelines.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Post-Sales Solution Execution

• Design, implement, and validate advanced and complex networking solutions.
• Translate high-level architectures and customer requirements into high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs), configuration templates, and implementation plans.
• Lead technical delivery engagements, including installation, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and cutover support.

Pre-Sales Enablement Support

• Collaborate with the CTO Office, CSEs, and capture teams to validate technical approaches, refine architectures, and contribute to SoWs, BOMs, and LoE estimates.
• Participate in technical review cycles for proposals, offering delivery-based insights.

Technical Documentation & Quality Control

• Produce and maintain high-quality documentation, including HLD/LLDs, implementation guides, testing procedures, as-built documentation, and customer runbooks.
• Participate in internal peer reviews, providing and receiving feedback to improve consistency, quality, and reusability of technical work products.
• Support internal Quality Control processes and contribute to the development of reusable templates, configuration baselines, and delivery standards.

Mentorship & Growth

• Work under the guidance of the Technical Director to align delivery with architectural intent, customer expectations, and engineering team strategy.
• Mentor engagement engineers and serve as a technical lead within delivery teams, especially on complex or cross-vendor implementations.
• Remain current on emerging technologies by participating in labs, certifications, and internal R&D efforts, then share knowledge with engagement engineers through on-the-job training (OJT), lab sessions, and hands-on enablement.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

• 8-12 years of experience in enterprise networking architecture, engineering, or consulting roles.
• Strong delivery background with hands-on experience deploying Cisco, Aruba and Palo Alto enterprise technologies.
• Proven ability to produce detailed, customer-ready technical documentation and deliver presentations to both engineering and management stakeholders.
• Comfortable participating in both post-sales delivery and pre-sales technical reviews and solution definition.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work independently or as part of a cross-functional team.
• Certifications: Cisco CCNP required; CCIE preferred.
• Active DoD Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Up to 30% travel across the US with some limited international travel required

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT!

• At our core, we're a team of hands-on engineers and solution architects who take pride in doing things right. You'll join a culture built on trust, engineering excellence, and accountability where solving complex problems is part of the everyday mission. We deliver real solutions, earn real trust, and stand behind everything we build. If you take pride in your craft, value teamwork over ego, and want to be part of a team that does what it says, come build something real with us.
• Iron Bow is rapidly growing and with growth comes opportunity for all.There is palpable energy and momentum across the company that is easy to tap into and be inspired by.

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OUR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITMENT

Iron Bow Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Iron Bow are based on relevant business considerations, such as operational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic prohibited by law.Iron Bow will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Overview

HYBRID - Minneapolis, MN

The ideal candidate for the Network Solutions Architect position will have experience with the design, configuration and hands-on implementation of security and data center networking infrastructure. Technologies being supported include software-defined data center networking such as Cisco ACI and traditional Cisco Nexus OS architectures. Security infrastructure experience supporting edge, segmentation, Palo Alto SD-WAN and VPN use cases with hardware such as Fortinet, Meraki and Cisco is also desired.

YOUR IMPACT

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with our customers to develop secure network architectures, meeting needs for performance, reliability and innovation.
• Design, implement and troubleshoot software-defined network (SDWAN, including Palo Alto SD-WAN) architectures such as Cisco ACI and traditional NX-OS architectures such as vPC, OTV, etc.
• Develop secure network architectures and designs that will allow business requirements to be met with a minimal degree of risk with the appropriate security controls present.
• Lead complex technology-based discussions to explain the architecture build and deployment plans and ongoing operational use.
• Design and implement security-driven infrastructure solutions to support segmentation such as virtual NGFW, physical firewalls and cloud-native security.
• Develop standards in partnership with customer teams such as Risk and Compliance, Engineering, Infrastructure Services, and Application Development.
• Lead initiatives designed to share knowledge across Customer and ePlus teams.
• Collaborate with the business and other technology experts to develop defense in depth security reference architectures, security architecture standards and frameworks spanning all layers of security from host, server, and network to application and data security.

• BS in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering, or Associate Degree
• At least one professional certification such as CCIE, CCNP or CISSP
• 10-12 years of experience with Network Architecture and/or Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with traditional Cisco NX-OS and related technologies background is a must.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco ACI and/or SD-WAN (including Palo Alto SD-WAN and Prisma Access) is a must, including design and implementation of policy (including contracts, segmentation and PBR) as well as scripting and automation using REST APIs, Python and other automation tools.
• Hands-on experience providing networking and security infrastructure services for an internal or external customers is a must.
• Deep routing protocol experience, including BGP, EIGRP and OSPF is a must.
• Familiarity with emerging fabric technologies such as MP-BGP (EVPN) with VXLAN and Cisco Software-Defined Access is beneficial.
• Familiarity with non-Cisco data center switching solutions such as Arista is beneficial.
• 5+ years of experience with Meraki (MX Firewall, SD-WAN, AutoVPN, Switching) is desirable.
• 5+ years of experience with NGFW OEM's (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Checkpoint, etc.) is desirable.
• Knowledge of Carrier Neutral Facilities such as Equinix and the networking options that are provided by such services is beneficial.
• Experience with Azure or AWS cloud platforms is beneficial.
• Experience with enterprise architecture and working as part of a cross functional team to implement solutions.

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Title: Solution Architect - Network
Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ / Alpharetta, GA (5 Days Onsite)
Experience: 15 Years
Job Description:

• 8+ years of experience in deploying & maintaining large scale L2 & L3 DataCenter Networks
• 8+ years of experience with Cisco (IOS & NXOS) and Arista (EOS) DataCenter equipment
• 7+ years of experience in deploying/diagnosing the following protocols & functions: IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/S, VLANs, MPLS, IPSEC, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VRF, VxLAN, RPKI, eVPN, VRRP, MLAG, VPC, STP, Anycast, IPSEC, SSL, TLS
• 5+ years of experience in Coding/Scripting languages (Python, Ansible, Powershell, Netmiko, Netconf, Napalm, Jinja, Yaml, JSON, API's)
• 4+ years of experience with VMWare platforms and Networking (VMotion, HCX, FXRails, VxRails)
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education, military, and work experience
• Experience that would be great to have:
  • Functional understanding of PCI/DSS controls, protections & best practices
  • Experience with Automation Toolsets, Scripting & Config Templating (GitLab, Python, Jinja, Netbox, Vendor API's)
  • Layer1 & 2 Protocols (Spanning-Tree modes and modifications, Trunking, MLAG/VPC)
  • DataCenter Fabric deployment types (FabricPath, VxLAN, EVPN)
  • Layer3 Routing Protocols and Network Routing techniques (BGP, OSPF)