Software Engineer - Networking

Job Responsibilities:

• Researching, designing, implementing, and managing software programs.
• Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications.
• Determining operational practicality.
• Documents testing, client experience and maintenance of system corrections.
• May partner and collaborate with cyber security teams to ensure compliance with security standards.
• May develop and conduct unit tests.
• Support development of virtual testbed infrastructure software and automation tooling to run tests that evaluate IP networking and data sharing application performance.
• Contribute to the design and development of a test orchestration framework that integrates existing tools for virtual machine management and network emulation to enable large-scale virtual system-level evaluation.
• Extend and build network emulation capabilities as needed using Linux networking features to model virtual networks.
• Help execute tests, collect data, debug anomalies, and analyze results.

Skills:

• Familiarity with communication systems and abstraction layers (TCP/IP, OSI models)
• Experience using Linux networking capabilities, tools, and advanced features
• Experience with Python (or similar programming language such as C++, Java, etc) software development, bash/POSIX shell scripting, and git workflows
• Understanding of layer-2 Ethernet switching
• Understanding of layer-3 IP routing
• Experience running containerized software and VMs, such as Kubernetes, Docker etc
• Experience with automated complex software provisioning, deployment, and configuration management
• Experience with commercial and/or open-source routers
• Network performance data collection and analysis experience
• Experience with data visualization frameworks (Grafana or similar tools)

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree