The Principal Network Architect will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer and help guide and build internal expertise to deliver best in class solutions for our customers.

Major Accountabilities/Key Performance Indicators

• Partner with sales and customer engineering groups to provide WAN/LAN architecture and services through to carrier selection and implementation.
• Partner with Engineering groups (Cloud, Networking, HPC, Automation and Storage) to architect/design the future Markley WAN/SD-WAN Network Services and the products that build upon it.
• Actively research new technologies, architectures and techniques and deliver strategy or research papers.
• Develop an accurate understanding of the Markley ecosystem and future direction in order to design services and systems that integrate, scale and provide key business opportunities.
• Identify clients technology goals to recommend and align solutions to meet their requirements.
• Create high-level design documentation and diagrams that engineering and development can use to build products.

Ideal Background/Capabilities

• Proven stakeholder relationship management skills
• Ability to influence teams of technical specialists
• Experience in leading area specific projects; ability to make project decisions independently
• Good documentation and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, proactive and a team player

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Computer Science, or similar. MSc or equivalent experience / certification preferred
• Must have experience in architecture roles within a large corporate environment or service provider with complex and mission critical network infrastructure and private/public cloud services
• 5 + years of enterprise or service Provider network architecture or engineering experience(WAN/LAN, SD-WAN, BGP,  MPLS, VPLS, P2P, EPL, WAVE, QoS/CoS, etc..)
• 5 + years delivering automation and orchestration for network, cloud and security components and services
• Understanding of carrier-class technologies and large enterprise networks
• Good to advanced understanding of cloud networking(AWS, Azure, GCP, etc..)
• Understanding of Internet Exchanges
• Advanced understanding of  TCP/IP, UDP, Routing Protocols, DNS, Load Balancing, etc..
• Strong track record of delivery in pressured, high impacting environments