Job description
Summary:
The Principal Technology Engineer provides enterprise-wide technical leadership and strategic direction for technology engineering initiatives. You’ll guide modernization efforts, establish engineering best practices, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term business strategy. This role influences architectural standards and drives innovation across multiple systems and services.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership for enterprise technology strategy, governance, and architecture alignment for the organization's Data Center networking environment.
Lead the design, engineering, implementation, and modernization of enterprise Data Center network solutions supporting mission-critical business services.
Define engineering standards, reference architectures, operational frameworks, and automation practices to improve operational efficiency, resiliency, scalability, and security.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, senior IT leadership, business stakeholders, and other Principal Technology Engineers to prioritize and deliver strategic technology initiatives.
Collaborate across multiple technology domains, including Cloud, Security, Compute, Storage, Virtualization, Application Development, and Infrastructure Services, to ensure integrated enterprise solutions.
Architect, implement, and support Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco Nexus switching platforms, Nexus Dashboard, and enterprise Data Center fabric technologies.
Design and maintain highly available Layer 2 and Layer 3 network architectures utilizing VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, vPC, multicast, and related technologies.
Lead Data Center modernization initiatives, infrastructure refreshes, network migrations, and strategic technology transformations.
Provide technical leadership for Data Center expansion initiatives, including enterprise colocation strategies and integration with Equinix facilities.
Partner with Network Engineering teams to support enterprise WAN evolution, including current Juniper SD-WAN deployments and migration toward Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN.
Develop and maintain enterprise networking standards, engineering documentation, reference architectures, and operational best practices.
Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for complex infrastructure initiatives.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve performance, resiliency, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Develop automation strategies utilizing APIs, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tools to improve operational consistency and efficiency.
Mentor engineers across teams, fostering continuous improvement, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing.
Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex Data Center networking issues and serve as the highest level of technical escalation during major incidents.
Maintain awareness of evolving networking technologies and industry best practices to support continuous improvement and enterprise innovation.
Skills and Competencies:
Deep expertise in enterprise technology architecture and modernization practices
Strategic mindset with ability to translate business goals into technical solutions
Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder influence skills
Mastery of integration frameworks, and automation strategies
Demonstrated ability to drive innovation across a complex technology landscape
Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise technical direction without direct authority.
Mastery of enterprise integration frameworks, automation strategies, and engineering best practices.
Demonstrated ability to drive innovation across a complex technology landscape.
Expert knowledge of Cisco Data Center networking technologies, including Cisco ACI, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series, NX-OS, and Nexus Dashboard.
Expert understanding of enterprise Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts.
Advanced expertise with VXLAN EVPN, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, vPC, multicast, QoS, Data Center Interconnect (DCI), and high-availability networking architectures.
Strong understanding of enterprise network segmentation, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust principles, and secure network design.
Experience integrating Data Center networking with cloud platforms, virtualization technologies, enterprise security solutions, storage platforms, and application delivery architectures
Experience with network automation utilizing Python, Ansible, REST APIs, Terraform, or similar automation technologies preferred.
Excellent analytical, documentation, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to engineers, architects, leadership, and executive stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Software Engineering preferred
10+ years of progressive experience in technology engineering or IT solution development
Additional Skills:
Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting Cisco Data Center networking solutions utilizing Cisco ACI and Cisco Nexus platforms.
Expert-level experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, VXLAN, EVPN, enterprise routing, switching, and Data Center networking technologies.
Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise environments.
Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architecture teams and cross-functional engineering organizations to develop enterprise technology standards and roadmaps.
Experience developing enterprise engineering standards, operational procedures, and technical documentation.
Experience supporting large enterprise environments; healthcare industry experience is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Data Center certification required or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Data Center certification strongly preferred.
Cisco DevNet Professional certification or equivalent experience with network automation is preferred.
Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights, Fabric Controller, or related Cisco Data Center management platforms.
Experience designing and supporting enterprise Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions.
Experience with Equinix colocation facilities and enterprise Data Center expansion initiatives.
Experience with Juniper SD-WAN and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN technologies.
Experience leading enterprise network modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a technical leader across multiple engineering disciplines.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.