Network Architect

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of network engineering experience.
• Demonstrated design/architecture ownership for live network migrations.
• Deep Cisco IOS and IOS-XE experience.
• Strong Cisco SD-WAN architecture/design experience.
• Strong BGP and OSPF knowledge.
• 802.1X and Cisco ISE experience.
• Azure networking experience.
• Python and/or Ansible automation.
• Experience directing field engineers/technicians.
• Hands-on Cisco configuration and production cutover capabilities.
• Ability and willingness to travel for site migrations and cutovers.
• Ability to support night/weekend cutovers.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Previous M&A network integration experience.
• CCNP certification.
• AWS networking experience.
• Enterprise wireless/site survey experience.
• Experience migrating/replacing Palo Alto, Fortinet, and/or Meraki infrastructure.
• Experience supporting multi-site, field-heavy businesses such as construction, energy, or utilities.

Job Description

Senior hands-on Network Architect responsible for integrating acquired-company networks into the parent organization's Cisco SD-WAN environment. This role owns discovery, target-state network design, migration planning, automation, field-team coordination, and live site cutovers, with travel required.

• Own the network domain end to end for acquired-company integrations.
• Assess acquired network environments including circuits, carriers, sites, firewalls, wireless, WAN, and IP address space.
• Design target-state networking aligned with the parent company's Cisco SD-WAN standards.
• Develop interim VPN/interconnect architecture during coexistence.
• Identify and resolve overlapping IP address spaces between acquired and parent environments.
• Design segmentation and network hardening in partnership with security architects.
• Develop site-by-site migration and cutover plans accounting for carriers, circuits, hardware lead times, applications, and voice dependencies.
• Migrate environments away from inherited Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Meraki technologies where applicable.
• Establish Azure network connectivity as workloads transition.
• Perform hands-on Cisco configuration, staging, troubleshooting, and cutover work.
• Direct on-site engineers and field technicians during migration events.
• Define rollback and go/no-go criteria and coordinate production cutovers across sites.