Staff Engineer, Network

Sila•Moses Lake, WA

1d•$146,000 - $185,000•Onsite

About The Position

Sila is a battery materials company developing and manufacturing materials intended to increase lithium-ion battery energy density while reducing battery size and weight. The Staff Engineer, Network will help provide highly available and resilient network infrastructure across multi-office or data center environments, with a primary base in Moses Lake and a physical presence required for equipment management. The role involves designing, deploying, monitoring, securing, and maintaining network infrastructure and configuration management. The engineer will troubleshoot network issues, support redundancy and platform resiliency, and collaborate with Data Systems teams to maintain the performance, security, uptime, and availability of critical components. The position requires daily use of respiratory protection and other personal protective equipment, entering narrow spaces, and walking throughout the facility. The starting base pay range is $146,000 to $185,000. Actual pay depends on factors including education, experience, and skills. Base pay is one part of Sila’s total rewards package, which can include benefits, perks, and equity.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience administering, monitoring, and securing firewalls, routers, and switches.
Deep Layer 2 knowledge and troubleshooting skills.
Experience working with MPLS, VPLS, or SD-WAN.
Experience with virtual switches in cluster computing environments.
Experience supporting Information Security policies, controls, and initiatives.
Able to pass a respirator fit test and wear respiratory protection daily.
Able to wear personal protective equipment, including a lab coat, gloves, safety glasses, and steel toe safety shoes.
Able to enter spaces narrower than 3 feet and walk miles a day to work on various parts of the facility.

Nice To Haves

Infrastructure as code.
AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect.
Experience with high-bandwidth storage networks.
Experience with Operational Technology in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Create accurate network diagrams and documentation for design and planning network communication systems.
Deploy and manage networks across multiple sites and environments, working to achieve network redundancy.
Monitor network performance, troubleshoot network problems and outages, schedule upgrades, and collaborate with other Data Systems teams.
Design, manage, and maintain centralized configuration management of networking equipment.
Build monitoring, supervision, and resiliency mechanisms to observe, respond to, and maintain platform health, performance, and security.
Develop and support processes to maintain uptime, SLAs, security, and availability of critical platform components.
Administer, monitor, and secure firewalls, routers, and switches.