Staff Network Engineer

Who You Are

You are a blend of network engineering, storage solutions, and Windows administration expertise. You will possess a strong understanding of network infrastructure, protocols, and security, coupled with hands-on experience in managing Windows Server environments and storage solutions. The ability to troubleshoot network issues, implement security measures, and work collaboratively with other teams is also crucial.

Location: Alameda, CA OR Moses Lake, WA

Responsibilities and Duties

• Knowledge of application transport and network infrastructure protocols and SD-WAN
• Ability to create accurate network diagrams and documentation for design and planning network communication systems.
• Ability to deploy and manage multiple sites, environments and work to achieve network redundancy.
• The ability to think through problems and visualize complex solutions
• Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with other Data Systems teams.
• Design, manage, and maintain centralized configuration management of Networking Gear
• Build monitoring, supervision, and resiliency mechanisms to observe, react to, and maintain platform health, performance, and security.
• Develop and support processes to maintain uptime, SLAs, security, and availability of critical platform components.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with administering, monitoring, and securing firewalls, routers and switches.
• Hands on experience with equipment and software from Cisco, Palo Alto, Arista, Juniper, Fortinet
• Configuration Management
• AWS VPC, Transit Gateway and Direct Connect is a plus
• Experience with High Bandwidth Storage Networks
• Experience working with MPLS, VPLS or SD-WAN
• Experience with virtual switches in cluster computing environments
• Experience supporting Information Security policies, controls, and initiatives
• Experience with Operational Technology in a Manufacturing environment a plus

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Experience working in data centers and/or environmentally controlled server rooms
• Able to install and cable rack-mounted network systems

The starting base pay for this role is between $138,000 and $185,000 at the time of posting. The actual base pay depends on many factors, such as education, experience, and skills. Base pay is only one part of Sila's competitive Total Rewards package that can include benefits, perks, equity, and bonuses. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

#LI-MY1 #LI-Onsite Alameda, CA or Moses Lake, WA