Network Architect

Role Summary

Designs and delivers the move of each acquired company's WAN, edge, campus and site connectivity, including jobsites, yards and remote locations, onto the parent's Cisco SD-WAN standard.

Domain Responsibilities

• Discover the network estate: circuits and carriers, sites, firewalls, wireless and IP space.
• Design the target network, the interim VPN interconnect, and the plan for fixing overlapping IP space.
• Define segmentation and hardening with the parent company's security architects.
• Plan the cutover sequence across sites, carriers and hardware lead times, including the impact on applications and voice.
• Move off inherited Palo Alto, Fortinet and Meraki equipment, and deliver Azure network connectivity as workloads move.
• Hands-on: Cisco configuration, staging and cutover, directing field crews on site.

Leadership & Delivery Responsibilities

• Own architecture: assess an environment that is usually poorly documented, design the target state against the parent company's standards, and defend it in review with program architects and other domain leads.
• Own planning and risk: estimate effort, set the sequence and the dependencies other domains rely on, and define rollback and go/no-go criteria.
• Lead: direct a small team, coach the acquired company's IT staff, and work across security, compliance and application owners.
• Build repeatability: turn each deal into reference designs and runbooks so the next integration starts from the last one, and re-plan integrations already underway.

Must Have

• 8+ years of network engineering, with design ownership on live migrations
• Deep Cisco IOS/IOS-XE and SD-WAN design
• BGP / OSPF
• 802.1X / ISE
• Azure networking
• Python / Ansible
• Experience leading field resources

Nice to Have

• CCNP
• AWS networking
• Enterprise wireless site surveys

Strong Plus

• Prior M&A integration experience and work in field-heavy industries (construction, energy, utilities).