Network Engineer

Company Overview
ACS (Allen Control Systems) is a defense technology company building precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. Founded by two former U.S. Navy electrical engineers with deep experience in robotics and software ACS brings together AI computer vision precision motion and advanced hardware to solve complex defense challenges across land air and maritime environments.

Our flagship product Bullfrog is an autonomous precision weapon system that transforms existing weapons into highly accurate counter-drone systems giving warfighters a scalable cost-effective response to one of the fastest-growing threats on the modern battlefield. Bullfrog is deployed with U.S. forces and ACS works with organizations throughout the U.S. military and national security community.

Following a $200 million Series B at a $2.2 billion valuation ACS is rapidly expanding manufacturing accelerating Bullfrog deployments and developing the next generation of autonomous battlefield systems. This is an opportunity to join a proven fast-moving team and help scale technology with direct real-world impact on national security.

ACS is headquartered in Austin Texas with additional operations in Alexandria Virginia; Mountain View California; and Huntsville Alabama. For more information visit .

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer to own and secure the network infrastructure supporting a fast-moving defense engineering organization. This engineer will be responsible for the design implementation and reliability of both on-premises and cloud network environments ensuring performance security and compliance in a regulated defense setting. Working closely with IT security and engineering teams this individual will serve as the organizations primary network resource building infrastructure that supports rapid growth while meeting the demands of a security-sensitive environment. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating independently enjoys solving complex network problems and understands how to translate best practices into a resilient well-documented network.

What Youll Do:

Own and maintain production network environments spanning both on-premises infrastructure (routing switching firewalls WAN/LAN wireless) and cloud networking in AWS (VPC subnets security groups VPN/Direct Connect Transit Gateway).

Design and implement network segmentation strategies for regulated security-sensitive and compliance-driven environments.

Administer and manage firewall policies (Palo Alto Fortinet Cisco ASA or similar) to protect network boundaries and enforce access controls.

Independently troubleshoot complex multi-site network issues as the organizations primary network engineering resource.

Maintain rigorous documentation including network diagrams IP schemas configuration baselines and change records.

What Youll Need:

Experience: 5 years of experience as a Network Engineer or Network Administrator with hands-on responsibility for production network environments.

Demonstrated experience managing both on-premises network infrastructure (routing switching firewalls WAN/LAN wireless) and cloud networking in AWS (VPC subnets security groups VPN/Direct Connect Transit Gateway).

Proven experience designing and implementing network segmentation for regulated security-sensitive or compliance-driven environments.

Strong working knowledge of firewall administration and policy management (Palo Alto Fortinet Cisco ASA or similar).

Experience troubleshooting complex multi-site network issues independently this role wont have a second network engineer to lean on initially.

Solid documentation discipline: network diagrams IP schemas configuration baselines change records.

Youll Stand Out:

CCNP certification (Enterprise Security or Data Center track).

Prior network engineering experience in aerospace defense or another ITAR/CMMC-regulated industry.

Familiarity with CMMC 2.0 / NIST 800-171 network boundary and CUI segmentation requirements.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty or equivalent AWS networking credential.

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for network provisioning.

What We Offer:

Competitive salary

ACS Equity Package

Health Dental Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Allen Control Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Allen Control Systems prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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