Staff Network Engineer

Who You Are

We are looking for a Network Engineer, and in this role, you plan, deploy, and monitor SD-WAN and other network protocols, create accurate network diagrams, and ensure redundancy across multiple sites. You troubleshoot performance issues, schedule upgrades, and maintain secure configurations, while collaborating with other teams to uphold SLAs and availability. You also manage centralized configuration of networking devices, use monitoring tools to observe system health, and develop resiliency processes for critical platform components.

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, Fortine
• 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
• Move items up to 50 lbs with the assistance of lift equipment and carts
• Move long distances (such as from building to building) and be stationary for extended periods of time
• Operate a computer and other office equipment, such as a laptop, copier/printer, etc in a fixed location

The starting base pay for this role is between $146,000 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-Hybrid