Backbone & Peering Network Architect

Location: Dallas TX
Work Arrangement: Hybrid 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
Employment Type: Direct Hire

Our client is seeking an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to lead the design and architecture of large-scale data center backbone networks WAN connectivity cloud interconnects and customer peering environments supporting high-performance computing and AI infrastructure.

This role will be responsible for defining scalable resilient and secure network architectures that support high-bandwidth low-latency workloads across data center cloud carrier and customer environments.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in data center networking carrier-grade routing peering ecosystems traffic engineering and multi-tenant network design along with the ability to develop architectural standards that support both current operations and long-term infrastructure growth.

• Own the architecture and evolution of large-scale data center backbone and data center interconnect (DCI) environments.
• Design highly available scalable and resilient network architectures supporting HPC AI/ML and other performance-intensive workloads.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures for WAN connectivity carrier interconnects cloud service provider connectivity and backbone expansion.
• Define architectural standards for routing traffic engineering redundancy failover telemetry and network observability.
• Design and optimize high-capacity connectivity between data centers cloud platforms carriers customers and external network providers.
• Develop secure multi-tenant networking architectures that provide customer isolation predictable performance and SLA adherence.
• Establish standards for peering transit interconnection and network capacity management.
• Align backbone architecture with long-term capacity forecasts infrastructure expansion and business growth.
• Partner with Solutions Architects platform teams and infrastructure engineering teams to ensure network designs align with application and workload requirements.
• Ensure security segmentation compliance monitoring and operational visibility are embedded throughout the network architecture.
• Evaluate routing policies traffic flows bandwidth requirements latency and failure scenarios across large-scale distributed environments.
• Support capacity modeling topology simulations and digital twin initiatives for network planning and performance analysis.
• Evaluate emerging networking technologies and recommend solutions that improve scalability resiliency performance and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineering and operations teams responsible for implementing network designs.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Network Engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• 7 years of experience designing or architecting large-scale data center backbone service provider or carrier networks.
• Deep expertise with modern data center networking architectures including:
  • Leaf-spine / Clos fabrics
  • EVPN
  • VXLAN
  • BGP
  • Large-scale Layer 3 architectures
• Strong experience with WAN architecture carrier connectivity internet peering transit and interconnect strategies.
• Strong understanding of routing policy traffic engineering redundancy failover network convergence and capacity planning.
• Experience designing highly available high-bandwidth low-latency network environments.
• Experience with multi-tenant network segmentation and secure customer connectivity.
• Strong understanding of network security observability telemetry monitoring and performance management.
• Experience supporting large-scale data center hyperscale HPC or distributed infrastructure environments.
• Strong documentation skills with the ability to develop network standards diagrams reference architectures and technical design documentation.
• Ability to communicate complex network concepts effectively to engineering teams leadership customers and other stakeholders.

• Experience supporting HPC AI/ML GPU-accelerated computing or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing networks for high-bandwidth and latency-sensitive workloads.
• Knowledge of cloud connectivity and private interconnect technologies across major cloud providers.
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure monitoring network automation capacity modeling or simulation platforms.
• Familiarity with digital twin concepts and network topology modeling.
• Experience working with telecommunications carriers colocation providers internet exchanges or cloud network providers.
• Previous technical leadership architecture leadership or large-scale infrastructure project experience.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage through the company-sponsored high-deductible health plan.
• Employer-paid dental and vision coverage for employees and eligible family members.
• 401(k) with 100% company match on employee contributions up to 6%.
• 25 days of paid time off plus 12 company holidays.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employer-paid life insurance short-term disability and long-term disability coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Savings Account options with company contributions.
• Flexible Spending Account options.
• Additional voluntary benefits and wellness programs.
• Company-provided lunch stipend.