Overview In this role you define an architectural vision for complex business solutions, focusing on DMZ, SASE, and cloud-enabled designs. You collaborate with stakeholders to align architecture with strategic objectives and drive a flexible, modular technology roadmap. You lead high-level architecture shaping, ensure non-functional requirements are met, and mentor teams through implementation challenges. This position offers impact across large-scale networks and cross-functional programs within a supportive, outcomes-driven environment.
Responsibilities- Create solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and translate features into a technology backlog
- Contribute to architecture roadmap across defined domains to support product roadmaps
- Clarify architecture, assist with system design, and provide solution options for impediments
- Lead design discussions, craft complex architectures, and enable flexible, modular solutions
- Educate teams on practices and standardization for innovative solutions
- Support technology stack selection and preferred products for solutions
- Perform design and code reviews to verify non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability, etc.)
- Collaborate across business and technology to evolve architecture with emerging requirements
- Lead rapid shaping of high-level architecture with evolving business input
- Assist Principal Engineer in selecting technology and products
Key requirements- 10+ years of industry experience with technology domain focus
- Experience integrating solutions with Cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google, IBM)
- Strong network security architecture and traffic segmentation knowledge
- Public cloud networking concepts in GCP, AWS, Azure
- Solid routing/switching experience with Arista, Cisco Nexus, Firepower/ASA, Fortinet
- TCP/IP, SDN, OSPF, BGP, VLAN, IPSEC, PKI, QoS, MPLS, VDC, VPC variations
- Ability to use DDoS tools (Arbor, Prolexic/Akamai, F5/Silverline) for mitigations
- Experience with Arista and Cisco platforms (ISR, ASR, Catalyst, Nexus)
- Analytical thinking
- Collaboration
- Problem solving
- DMZ/Remote Access/SDWAN/Hosting/B2B/VPN architectural design
- Security architectures and firewall/intrusion mitigation
- Cloud networking in GCP, AWS, Azure; Cloud Interconnect/Direct Connect/ExpressRoute
