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Salary: USD 146,000 - 185,000 / annual
Sila Nanotechnologies is a next-generation battery materials company on a mission to power the world's transition to clean energy. The company engineers and manufactures breakthrough battery materials that significantly increase energy density while reducing size and weight, enabling smaller, more powerful batteries for consumer devices and electric vehicles.
You will serve as a Staff Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining highly available and resilient network infrastructure across multiple sites and data center environments. This is a hands-on technical role requiring a physical presence, primarily based in Moses Lake, WA, for equipment management and facility operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and manage network infrastructure across multiple office and data center environments, ensuring high availability and redundancy
- Deploy and maintain centralized configuration management for networking equipment (firewalls, routers, switches)
- Develop and implement SD-WAN, MPLS, VPLS, and other advanced routing protocols
- Create accurate network diagrams and documentation for design and planning
- Monitor network performance, troubleshoot outages, and schedule upgrades in collaboration with data systems teams
- Build monitoring, supervision, and resiliency mechanisms to maintain platform health, performance, and security
- Develop and support processes to maintain uptime, SLAs, security, and availability of critical infrastructure
- Support information security policies, controls, and initiatives
- Work with high-bandwidth storage networks and virtual switches in cluster computing environments
The role requires a deep technical foundation in network engineering, with experience managing complex, mission-critical infrastructure. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and take ownership of network reliability and performance.
Physical demands include passing a respirator fit test, wearing personal protective equipment (lab coat, gloves, safety glasses, steel-toe shoes) on a daily basis, navigating spaces narrower than 3 feet, and walking miles throughout the facility.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience administering, monitoring, and securing firewalls, routers, and switches
- Deep Layer 2 knowledge and troubleshooting expertise
- Experience with dynamic routing protocols (MPLS, VPLS, SD-WAN)
- Experience with high-bandwidth storage networks
- Experience with virtual switches in cluster computing environments
- Experience supporting information security policies and controls
- Infrastructure as code (preferred)
- AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect (preferred)
- Experience with Operational Technology in manufacturing environments (preferred)
- Ability to think through complex problems and visualize solutions
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with attention to detail
