Network Engineer

Who You Are

As a Network Engineer on the Data Systems team, you will work closely with Systems Engineers and the IT team to help solve a variety of challenges ranging from improving existing network resiliency to launching new core network infrastructure in new facilities. You will apply your expertise to identify areas of improvement and to build solutions that set up the company to adjust for scale while also maintaining and enhancing security standard methodologies.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Strong organizational skills, especially around cable management and structured cabling
• 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 100% network redundancy
• The ability to think through problems and visualize complex solutions
• Maximize network performance through monitoring, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization
• Support software engineering CI/CD efforts for Windows-based applications
• 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
• Produce detailed documentation for change management, project planning and execution, and for ongoing operations
• Participate in an on-call rotation to quickly respond to network alerts or incidents

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with administering, monitoring, and securing firewalls, routers and switches as well as Windows Server environments
• Hands on experience with equipment from Cisco, Palo Alto, Arista, Juniper
• Knowledge of network operating systems including JUNOS, IOS, PanOS or EOS
• Working knowledge of AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect
• Experience working with MPLS, VPLS or SD-WAN
• Experience with on-premise virtualization platforms and physical hardware
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience supporting in-house built Windows applications and frameworks
• Experience supporting Information Security policies, controls, and initiatives
• Experience in Regulated or Compliant environments focused on uptime and security

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

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

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The starting base pay for this role is between $141,500 and $179,000 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-FM1 #LI-Hybrid