Description

Who is SimSpace:

SimSpace Corporation launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most demanding cybersecurity challenges to reduce organizational cyber risk. Our exclusive cyber range provides the best platform for product testing, real-world attack simulations, and extensive individual and team readiness training. 

We are a fast-growing leader in the cyber range market and enable organizations to ensure that their people, processes, and technology are all ready to operate in harmony. SimSpace is disrupting the status quo for cybersecurity risk and readiness. Our advanced cyber security stack evaluations, automatic attack/defend bots, and cyber range technologies are changing the way security teams learn, grow, and work. We are a hybrid, remote & on-site company with offices in Boston's Fort Point and Laurel, Maryland. Most of our team members are distributed across the country. 

Summary of the Role:

This role is a hybrid one. It will work partly in our Boston office and partly remote.

The Senior Network Engineer position is a senior technology practitioner, responsible for the collaborative design, implementation, monitoring, and maintenance of network infrastructure, security infrastructure, network operations, and technology solutions in use by SimSpace at all company locations and data centers across the United States and in Europe. This individual will serve as a senior technical resource, leading all support and design efforts. As a senior networking subject matter expert, the individual will have a deep technical understanding of critical network and security infrastructure in a large enterprise. The individual will coordinate all troubleshooting and/or triage efforts should the network experience any type of failure or incident. This position will also advocate for continual modernization of the network infrastructure, yielding an improved connected experience for our employees.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to use professional oral and written communication along with strong analytical and critical thinking skills to successfully take ownership and drive technology problem or incident management. Effective and collaborative interactions with colleagues, end users, IT leaders, and business stakeholders is critical to ensure success. The candidate should be an effective change advocate, possessing the ability to understand the impacts of technology transformation. The senior engineer should also have experience mentoring junior engineers, with hopes of contributing to their technical progression. As a first responder to incidents, the Senior Network Engineer needs to demonstrate a positive, friendly, and empathetic attitude with their team members and internal employees.

What You Will Do:

• Subject matter expert for network and security infrastructure
• Designs, implements, and supports all enterprise network infrastructure as well as Software Defined networking within the SimSpace platforms
• Stays abreast of available network upgrades, reducing the potential for technical debt
• Contributes to the design and implementation of a resilient, secure and scalable network
• Ensures the resiliency of all network devices (routers, switches, wireless access points, VPN, VoIP)
• Work closely with our other Systems and Network Engineers and Network Operations Staff to ensure network connectivity requirements are fulfilled in a timely manner
• Ensure that all documentation on process and procedures are available and updated regularly following DT Network teams SOP
• Implement, monitor, support and maintain security platforms and processes including Next Generation Firewalls, Network Access Control, Remote Access, SIEM, IDS/ IPS, Virtual Private Networks, EDR/XDR, and Cloud Security Technologies.
• Partner with other IT departments to assess the overall security posture of the network environment including security event detection, triage, and threat analysis
• Plan, implement, maintain and coordinate upgrades/updates/fixes for core network operating systems and their related components, without negative impact to the overall availability and reliability of the enterprise systems/networks 
• Monitor daily systems performance and execute corrective measures 
• Assess existing security technologies to establish opportunities for improved security controls
• Identify opportunities to improve process and operational disciplines
• Mentor team members within various technology disciplines
• Technical leadership with fulfilling various requests, including maintenance tasks and business projects

Requirements

What You Will Bring:

• 8 years of core network engineering experience
• 5 years of security infrastructure experience
• Strong understanding of network infrastructure and network hardware
• Strong knowledge of major router and switching platforms including Cisco and Dell
• Knowledge of OSI model and network infrastructure protocols
• Ability to lead project implementations: create a detailed schedule of tasks, spec out HW and inventory control
• Ability to quickly learn new or unfamiliar technology and products using documentation and online resources
• Proficient in Network Packet captures and analysis
• Strong Hands-on IPv4 and IPv6 support and implementations
• Strong hands-on experience on Fortinet, Palo Alto and pfSense network firewall platforms
• Strong hands-on experience on MESH VPNs, Site-to-Site VPNs, Remote VPN technology
• Strong hands-on experience of Cisco routing protocols, including BGP, and configuration
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Solar Winds, OpsGenie, and Gigamon
• Experience with Security Infrastructure tools such as Crowdstrike, Darktrace, and Rapid7
• Experience working in complex VMWare environments leveraging NSX-T and DVS as well as other SD protocols
• Experience with LAN design including IP allocations, network segmentation, and VLAN definition and implementation
• Experience designing and managing hybrid network and security environments with a mixture of on-premise stacks integrated with deployed cloud infrastructure and applications

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides extensive Benefits including:

• Competitive salary and benefits (medical, dental, company-paid vision, 401k, savings and spending accounts, Employee Assistance Program, company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance)
• Unlimited paid time off
• Salary Range ($150,000 -$180,000)
• Equity options at hire and potential for additional based on performance
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Peloton Interactive Wellness Program
• Semi-flexible hours, with the expectation that you overlap the main part of the day to meet deadlines, collaborate with colleagues and attend key meetings.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. 

SimSpace does not and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression and identity, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military/veteran status, in any of its activities or operations. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application.