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Job Title: Staff Network Engineer
Department: Operations Engineering
Reports To: Senior Manager, Operations
Revision Date: 11/9/2026
FLSA: Exempt
Location: Broomfield, CO or Stoughton, MA (Remote -OK)
Level: T4
Rate of Pay: $136,900 - $146,900
Company Overview:
At Comtech Telecommunications Corp, in the Allerium business segment, every connection counts. With roughly 700 employees, we design, deploy, and operate the mission-critical communications infrastructure that public safety agencies and emergency responders depend on every minute of every day.
Comtech Allerium is powering Next Generation 911 and carrier emergency services across North America. We are helping shape the future of emergency communications — making it more resilient, scalable, intelligent, and accessible. If you're looking for work that combines meaningful impact, complex challenges, and the opportunity to build technology people genuinely depend on, there's a place for you at Comtech Allerium. For more on Allerium, please go to www.allerium.com.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a Staff Network Engineer to join our Infrastructure Operations team in delivering lifesaving Next-Generation 911 (NG911) solutions. In this role, you will manage the backbone that supports tens of millions of citizens and thousands of Emergency 911 centers (PSAPs) across North America. Working across more than a dozen global data centers, you will have direct ownership of on-premises and cloud-based networking for our largest customers ensuring that these mission-critical systems are automated, optimized, and always available.
Responsibilities:
- Hands-on Network Engineering: Take full ownership for network architecture, deployment, life-cycle management & troubleshooting across our development and production environments. Provide technical direction and establish engineering standards across multi-vendor platforms.
- Technical Strategy and Architecture: Define long-term infrastructure strategy, evaluate emerging technologies, and lead implementation initiatives that improve scalability, security, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Operational Leadership: Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex operational issues, critical incidents, and major infrastructure upgrades. Drive resolution efforts while ensuring high availability, resiliency, and reliability for mission-critical NG911 services.
- Technical Mentorship: Mentor and guide engineers across the organization by promoting engineering best practices, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.
- Optimization & Reliability: Identify network bottlenecks, resiliency gaps, and performance improvement opportunities across production environments. Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to implement scalable and sustainable solutions.
- Automation: Develop and enhance network automation, monitoring, and operational tooling using Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting methodologies.
- On-Call Support: Participate in the Network Engineering on-call rotation and provide leadership during high-severity incidents within a 24x7 mission-critical environment.
Requirements:
- Core Technical Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with enterprise and carrier-grade networking technologies including Cisco and Juniper routing/switching platforms, Palo Alto firewalls (including Panorama), and F5 or Citrix load balancing solutions. Strong experience with data center deployments.
- Advanced Routing: Deep understanding of BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, traffic engineering, and high-availability network design.
- Cloud & SDWAN: Experience supporting hybrid cloud networking environments, including AWS networking fundamentals, connectivity, routing, and security concepts.
- Automation / scripting: Experience with network automation, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, or APIs is highly desirable.
- Problem Solving: A track record of solving complex technical problems in a collaborative, fast-paced setting.
- Ownership & Accountability: Self-driven leader with strong ownership mindset, capable of working independently, driving initiatives to completion, and making sound technical decisions in high-pressure situations.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly present technical concepts, recommendations, and operational impacts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or a related field, plus 10+ years of relevant hands-on network engineering experience.
- Network: CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE, or equivalent advanced networking certifications are preferred.
- Cloud: AWS Practitioner or higher-level cloud certifications.
- Specialized: Advanced experience with Cisco and Juniper routing/switching platforms, Palo Alto firewalls (including Panorama), and F5 or Citrix load balancers.
This position requires compliance with Comtech’s Drug-Free Workplace Program. Candidates must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire. Employees may be subject to random, reasonable suspicion, and post-incident testing. Illegal drug use — including marijuana, regardless of state law — is disqualified under federal adjudicative guidelines and DoD DFARS requirements.
The pay range reflects the expected base salary for this position. Final compensation will be based on role, level, skills, experience, and geographic location.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Job Title: Staff Network Engineer
Department: Operations Engineering
Reports To: Senior Manager, Operations
Revision Date: 11/9/2026
FLSA: Exempt
Location: Broomfield, CO or Stoughton, MA (Remote -OK)
Level: T4
Rate of Pay: $136,900 - $146,900
Company Overview:
At Comtech Telecommunications Corp, in the Allerium business segment, every connection counts. With roughly 700 employees, we design, deploy, and operate the mission-critical communications infrastructure that public safety agencies and emergency responders depend on every minute of every day.
Comtech Allerium is powering Next Generation 911 and carrier emergency services across North America. We are helping shape the future of emergency communications — making it more resilient, scalable, intelligent, and accessible. If you're looking for work that combines meaningful impact, complex challenges, and the opportunity to build technology people genuinely depend on, there's a place for you at Comtech Allerium. For more on Allerium, please go to www.allerium.com.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a Staff Network Engineer to join our Infrastructure Operations team in delivering lifesaving Next-Generation 911 (NG911) solutions. In this role, you will manage the backbone that supports tens of millions of citizens and thousands of Emergency 911 centers (PSAPs) across North America. Working across more than a dozen global data centers, you will have direct ownership of on-premises and cloud-based networking for our largest customers ensuring that these mission-critical systems are automated, optimized, and always available.
Responsibilities:
- Hands-on Network Engineering: Take full ownership for network architecture, deployment, life-cycle management & troubleshooting across our development and production environments. Provide technical direction and establish engineering standards across multi-vendor platforms.
- Technical Strategy and Architecture: Define long-term infrastructure strategy, evaluate emerging technologies, and lead implementation initiatives that improve scalability, security, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Operational Leadership: Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex operational issues, critical incidents, and major infrastructure upgrades. Drive resolution efforts while ensuring high availability, resiliency, and reliability for mission-critical NG911 services.
- Technical Mentorship: Mentor and guide engineers across the organization by promoting engineering best practices, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.
- Optimization & Reliability: Identify network bottlenecks, resiliency gaps, and performance improvement opportunities across production environments. Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to implement scalable and sustainable solutions.
- Automation: Develop and enhance network automation, monitoring, and operational tooling using Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting methodologies.
- On-Call Support: Participate in the Network Engineering on-call rotation and provide leadership during high-severity incidents within a 24x7 mission-critical environment.
Requirements:
- Core Technical Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with enterprise and carrier-grade networking technologies including Cisco and Juniper routing/switching platforms, Palo Alto firewalls (including Panorama), and F5 or Citrix load balancing solutions. Strong experience with data center deployments.
- Advanced Routing: Deep understanding of BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, traffic engineering, and high-availability network design.
- Cloud & SDWAN: Experience supporting hybrid cloud networking environments, including AWS networking fundamentals, connectivity, routing, and security concepts.
- Automation / scripting: Experience with network automation, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, or APIs is highly desirable.
- Problem Solving: A track record of solving complex technical problems in a collaborative, fast-paced setting.
- Ownership & Accountability: Self-driven leader with strong ownership mindset, capable of working independently, driving initiatives to completion, and making sound technical decisions in high-pressure situations.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly present technical concepts, recommendations, and operational impacts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or a related field, plus 10+ years of relevant hands-on network engineering experience.
- Network: CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE, or equivalent advanced networking certifications are preferred.
- Cloud: AWS Practitioner or higher-level cloud certifications.
- Specialized: Advanced experience with Cisco and Juniper routing/switching platforms, Palo Alto firewalls (including Panorama), and F5 or Citrix load balancers.
This position requires compliance with Comtech’s Drug-Free Workplace Program. Candidates must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire. Employees may be subject to random, reasonable suspicion, and post-incident testing. Illegal drug use — including marijuana, regardless of state law — is disqualified under federal adjudicative guidelines and DoD DFARS requirements.
The pay range reflects the expected base salary for this position. Final compensation will be based on role, level, skills, experience, and geographic location.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in staff network engineer jobs.
- 7 or more years of hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise networks
- Deep expertise in BGP, OSPF, MPLS, and large-scale routing architecture
- Current CCIE, JNCIE, or equivalent professional-level network certification
- Experience with network automation tools and scripting in Python or Ansible
- Proficiency with firewalls, load balancers, and network security policy enforcement
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, network engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Staff Network Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to routing protocols
Staff-level postings consistently call out specific protocols like BGP, OSPF, and MPLS. List each one you've deployed in production, the scale involved, and the outcome, so reviewers can immediately match your experience to their environment.
Lead with infrastructure scope on your resume
Hiring managers at the staff level want to see the size of what you've owned. Quantify the number of devices, sites, or traffic volumes you managed, not just your job duties, so your resume reads as senior-scoped from the first line.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists staff network engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by your strongest vendor stack
Staff roles are almost always tied to a specific vendor ecosystem, Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or Palo Alto. Search for openings that name your certified stack first, since mismatched vendor requirements are one of the most common reasons strong candidates get filtered out early.
Prepare a design walkthrough for interviews
Staff-level interviews typically include a whiteboard or virtual design exercise where you're asked to architect a network segment under constraints. Practice narrating your reasoning out loud, explaining tradeoffs between redundancy, latency, and cost as you draw, not just arriving at a final answer.
Negotiate scope before negotiating anything else
At the staff level, what you own matters as much as what you earn. Before accepting an offer, clarify whether you'll have design authority, budget input, and cross-functional influence, since those factors affect your career trajectory more than the initial offer figure.
Staff Network Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most staff network engineers?
The most active employers for staff network engineers right now are Google, Northrop Grumman, and Capital One, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in enterprise technology, defense, and large financial institutions.
How many staff network engineer jobs are remote?
About 65% of staff network engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though fully on-site roles remain common for positions involving classified environments or hands-on data center work. Network automation, architecture advisory, and cloud networking roles tend to be the most remote-friendly sub-areas within the discipline.
How do you become a staff network engineer?
Start by building a foundation in networking fundamentals and earning an associate-level certification, then progress to professional-level credentials like CCNP or JNCIP while gaining experience in progressively larger environments. Move into senior engineer roles where you own full network segments, then demonstrate design leadership and cross-team influence to reach the staff level. Automation skills and cloud networking experience accelerate that progression significantly.
Can you get hired as a staff network engineer with limited experience?
Staff network engineer roles are senior positions, so direct hiring into them without substantial hands-on experience is uncommon. The most practical path with a lighter background is to target senior network engineer openings first, build depth in a specific domain like security or automation, earn a professional-level certification, and document the scale of infrastructure you've managed to position yourself for a staff-level move within two to three years.
What does the staff network engineer interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial screening call, a technical phone interview focused on routing protocols and network design principles, and then one or more rounds of in-depth technical interviews that often include a live design exercise or troubleshooting scenario. Final rounds typically involve a panel with engineering leadership and sometimes a cross-functional stakeholder interview to assess your ability to communicate complex infrastructure decisions to non-technical audiences.
Where can I find and apply to staff network engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to staff network engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, vendor background, and preferred location or remote arrangement, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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