Network Operations & Deployment Engineer

📍 Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite) ✈ Up to 10% Domestic & International Travel 🏢 Polar Field Services, Inc. supporting the TaaraConnect Program Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)

Polar Field Services (PFS) is seeking a highly motivated Network Operations & Deployment Engineer to support the TaaraConnect program, an innovative Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) network delivering high-speed wireless connectivity around the world.

This role is ideal for an experienced network operations, telecommunications, or systems engineering professional who enjoys a combination of network troubleshooting, automation, cloud infrastructure, incident response, and occasional field deployment work supporting cutting-edge communications technology.

What You'll Do

• Monitor and support large-scale wireless backhaul networks operating worldwide.
• Detect, triage, troubleshoot, and resolve network incidents in a 24x7 operations environment.
• Support routing, switching, VPNs, network monitoring, and remote infrastructure management.
• Build and maintain monitoring, observability, and alerting systems using industry-standard tools.
• Analyze logs, telemetry, and operational data to improve network performance and reliability.
• Develop automation using Python, shell scripting, APIs, and cloud-based services.
• Build and support Linux virtual machines and services within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Create and maintain runbooks, knowledge articles, and incident documentation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and serve as an escalation point for critical events.
• Assist deployment teams with network integration, site turn-up, troubleshooting, and customer implementations when needed.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of network operations, network administration, telecommunications engineering, or related experience supporting production environments.
• Strong Linux administration experience, including command-line troubleshooting, scripting, and log analysis.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing and switching, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, and related protocols.
• Experience working in cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and incident management skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Sunnyvale and participate in shift schedules, after-hours support, and on-call rotations.
• Valid U.S. passport and authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

➕ CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, JNCIS, or similar networking certifications.

➕ Experience with automation, version control, and configuration management.

➕ SQL database experience.

➕ Experience with optical transport, microwave, RF, or Free Space Optical Communications technologies.

➕ Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, or other incident management platforms.

Why Join Polar Field Services?

• Employee-owned company (ESOP)
• Work with innovative communications technology
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, and telecommunications technologies
• Small, highly collaborative engineering teams
• Opportunity to make a direct impact on network reliability and global connectivity

If you're a self-starter who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and helping operate next-generation communications networks, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and help power the future of wireless communications.