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.

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.