Principal Architect - Data Center (US)

EOS•Dallas, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

EOS IT Solutions is a Global Technology and Logistics company, providing Collaboration and Business IT Support services to some of the world’s largest industry leaders, delivering forward-thinking solutions based on multi-domain architecture. Customer satisfaction and commitment to superior quality of service are our top business priorities, along with investing in and supporting our partners and employees. We are a true International IT provider and are proud to deliver our services through global simplicity with trusted transparency. We are seeking a Principal Architect to define and lead next‑generation data center architecture spanning physical and logical design, software-defined infrastructure, virtualization, and containerization. This role drives the strategy for workload, management, and control zones across regions and availability zones while enabling placement of core and foundation services.

Requirements

10+ years data center/platform architecture.
Expertise with VCF (vSphere, NSX, vSAN) and NSX networking.
Strong background in fabric architecture (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP).
Experience with Kubernetes/Tanzu and container networking.
IaC, GitOps, automation, and observability expertise.

Nice To Haves

Certifications: VCIX/VCAP, NSX, CCNP/CCIE DC, CKA/CKS.
Multi-region architecture and workload placement experience.
Knowledge of SDS, storage, backup/DR, and cyber-resilience.

Responsibilities

Define target-state data center architecture with regional/AZ constructs.
Establish workload, management, and control zone strategy.
Lead design of next‑generation fabrics (leaf‑spine, EVPN/VXLAN).
Align internal and external network designs for consistent policy.
Develop VCF networking standards: VPC constructs, Distributed Transit Gateway, Distributed Firewall, Load Balancing.
Integrate virtualization, SDS, and Kubernetes/Tanzu platforms.
Drive software-defined infrastructure adoption and automation.
Oversee architecture governance, design reviews, and roadmap execution.