Principal Network Architect
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United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
Salary180,000 - 250,000 USD per year
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Requirements
- Direct background building or operating network infrastructure at a carrier, MSP, data center provider, ISP, or managed connectivity provider.
- Hands-on proficiency in BGP, VLANs, QinQ, VRFs, Layer 2/3 transport, IP addressing, routing policy, redundant network design, and customer handoff design.
- Experience deploying routers, switches, circuits, and cross-connects in data center or colocation environments.
- Experience with private cloud connectivity, including Azure ExpressRoute or equivalent direct cloud interconnect models.
- Working familiarity sourcing and managing data center providers, carriers, fiber providers, transport vendors, and hardware partners.
- Demonstrated ability to translate infrastructure capabilities into commercial products including pricing, margins, vendor cost, and contract terms.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and expand private connectivity and interconnect capabilities across strategic data centers, cloud onramps, carrier hotels, and customer aggregation points.
- Own edge node deployments end to end: hardware selection, redundancy design, routing, monitoring, documentation, and lifecycle management.
- Expand private cloud connectivity offerings, with a focus on Azure ExpressRoute and comparable direct interconnect models.
- Source and negotiate data center presence, colocation, cross-connects, and carrier relationships.
- Translate technical infrastructure capabilities into clearly defined, repeatable, sellable product offerings.
- Install, configure, and troubleshoot routers, switches, BGP sessions, VLANs, QinQ, VRFs, cross-connects, and transport circuits.
- Train sales, engineering, implementation, and support teams on the connectivity portfolio.
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