At Underline, we are driven by a singular mission: to ensure the vibrancy of our nation through building intelligent community infrastructure. We work with communities across the United States to design, finance, and construct open access fiber-optic networks. We believe these networks are the essential foundation for ultra-fast access to information, a competitive market for content and services, job formation and reskilling for workers, distributed healthcare services, new wireless solutions, and resilient modern infrastructure including responsible energy creation.  

We’re looking for a Full-time Network Engineer to join our Engineering team.  

Our Engineering team responds to the needs of the business, delivering well-designed and strategically aligned technology solutions in network architecture and design, customer acquisition, network service provider connectivity, and operations and support systems.

Join us as we help support the vitality and resilience of communities.

About Us

• You are hungry, humble, and curious
• We offer bold solutions to drive positive, sustainable change
• We approach our work with humility, integrity, and intellectual rigor
• We are agile and relentless in pursuit of our mission
• We have a mentality of service: to our mission, and to each other
• We are dedicated to building and sustaining a culture of flourishing
• We optimize our efforts to create positive sum for community and capital

• You are hungry, humble, and curious
• You have excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• You are an intrinsic self-starter and enjoy taking on new challenges
• You want to be part of the early stages of a company where everything you build matters
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, comprised of diverse subject matter experts in finance, government, infrastructure, and tech
• You care about building critical intelligent infrastructure to increase community vitality and improve resilience
• You see everyone in the company as your customer, always striving to delight by providing top notch customer service
• You’re an innovator and you want to help develop creative technology products that help communities upgrade their infrastructure and that help investors find our innovative investment opportunities

• The focus of this position will be on LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, VxLAN, leaf-spine and data center technologies.
• Design network virtualization, cloud computing, SDN/NFV, and overlay technologies.
• Rack and stack equipment in data center in community or region (some travel required)
• Create detailed bills of materials, and assist in sourcing materials
• Install and configure network operating systems for SDN access
• Build a virtualized edge infrastructure
• Explore, investigate, test, and develop various SD-WAN methods, IoT, automation, internet network security, and other devices/products in residential, business, and enterprise customer settings. Ensure full stack integration is achievable and network design architectures support device/product needs including QoS and network traffic prioritization.
• Design automation across Networks, AWS, SDWAN, utilizing (REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, Python, 3rd party network automation tools. 
• Assist with connection of network to NOC vendor
• Deploy network monitoring software and enable monitoring of community networks
• Ensure security and compliance for perimeter and internal services 
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues on our internal network 
• Assist in evaluating vendors for network equipment, materials, and construction
• Provide IT support on an ad hoc basis for our regional offices and employees

• At least 6 years experience in Network Engineering, preferably in the telecommunications industry
• At least 2 years experience with Software Defined Networking and SD-WANs
• 2+ years infrastructure as code experience utilizing Python, REST, YAML, API integration, Ansible and/or Terraform
• Extensive knowledge of TCP/IP, VLAN/VXLAN, VRF, QoS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP as well as MPLS connectivity/architecture.
• Hands-on experience with fiber-optic network equipment, cabling, and connections in the Data Center as well in the Field. 
• Extensive experience with Data Center designs and installation of Switches / Routers / Servers / Firewalls in the data center. 
• Knowledge of virtualized implementation (SDN/NFV/CNF) network nodes under NFV, OpenStack, etc. Understanding of new virtualization techniques like containers, WebScale architecture, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of network protocols and standards, especially ethernet routing, switching, bridging, VXLAN, EVPN, MPLS, QinQ, OpenFlow, and ONAP
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems, and especially with Linux networking
• Experience with at least one virtualization technology such as VMware
• Familiarity with major municipal network architectures and standards such as GPON, Active Ethernet, DOCSIS, and HFC
• Experience with shell scripting such as Bash, or  scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, etc.
• Familiarity with IT compliance areas such as change management, incident response, and configuration management
• Vendor management experience, including initial and annual diligence and contract negotiation
• Familiarity with access control, centralized systems management, inventory management and directory management such as LDAP/ActiveDirectory and SSO
• Familiarity with network and connectivity troubleshooting from both a user endpoint perspective as well as server and networking infrastructure perspective.
• Cisco, Juniper, or similar network design, configuration, and/or operations certifications a big plus