Senior Network Engineer, Commercial Energy Storage
What to Expect
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
Join Tesla Energy’s network team supporting commercial energy storage across EMEA and the UK. This is a hands-on, operational Senior Network Engineer role focused on implementation, triage, and production support.
You will own regional network delivery for energy sites, deploy and validate within established architecture, act as a senior escalation point, and keep services reliable under real customer expectations. Strong production networking fundamentals and an operations mindset matter most. You will coach peers where needed while staying deep in day-to-day delivery.
This is not a pure architecture, program management, or design-only role. Success means owning production operations: deployments, incident response, on-call, and continuous improvement of live network services.
You will own regional network delivery for energy sites, deploy and validate within established architecture, act as a senior escalation point, and keep services reliable under real customer expectations. Strong production networking fundamentals and an operations mindset matter most. You will coach peers where needed while staying deep in day-to-day delivery.
This is not a pure architecture, program management, or design-only role. Success means owning production operations: deployments, incident response, on-call, and continuous improvement of live network services.
What You'll Do
- Own and improve production network services for commercial energy storage sites across EMEA and the UK
- Act as a senior (Tier 3) escalation point for complex network incidents and changes
- Gather requirements, analyze issues, and propose practical networking solutions
- Provision, implement, test/validate, and maintain networking services remotely, using regional staging environments
- Monitor, analyze, and report on network service health and performance
- Document network knowledge and operational runbooks
- Partner with field, product, and security teams to keep sites compliant, supportable, and secure
- Mentor and support other network engineers on deployments and operational best practices
- Participate in an on-call rotation; occasional weekends, after-hours, and holiday coverage as needed
- Travel approximately 15% as required
What You'll Bring
Required
Preferred
- Several years of production network engineering experience with operational ownership (incidents, changes, on-call)
- Strong hands-on IP networking: L2/L3 (e.g. spanning-tree, OSPF and/or BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, QoS, ACLs, and high availability (e.g. VRRP, LACP)
- Hands-on experience with common enterprise switching and routing platforms (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or equivalent)
- Experience with firewall and VPN services (e.g. Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto Networks, or equivalent), including IPSec VPN and related security controls
- Experience supporting production network services for internal or external customers under time pressure
- Ability to write clear operational documentation and runbooks
- Comfortable working occasional off-hours and participating in on-call
- Willingness to travel (~15%) as needed
Preferred
- SD-WAN and/or modern fabric technologies (e.g. EVPN with VXLAN)
- Network automation (Ansible, Python, shell scripting, or similar)
- Observability and troubleshooting tooling (e.g. SNMP, NetFlow, packet capture, IPAM, RADIUS, Splunk or equivalent)
- Experience in a fast-paced environment with external customer support
- CCNP or equivalent networking certification
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
