Principal Network Architect - Global Infrastructure & Cyber Resilience
About The Position
As a Principal Network Architect at Commvault, you will play a critical role in shaping and evolving our global network strategy while remaining closely connected to implementation and execution. This is a highly impactful, hands-on leadership role responsible for defining the long-term vision and architecture of our global connectivity environment. You will design and guide the implementation of secure, scalable network solutions—from Zero Trust and multi-cloud architectures to global routing and automation frameworks—ensuring they align with business and security objectives. Success in this role requires a blend of strategic thinking and deep technical expertise. You will partner with senior leaders to influence direction, establish best practices and standards, and provide guidance on complex technical challenges. At the same time, you will stay engaged with the engineering teams—supporting troubleshooting, contributing to critical initiatives, and ensuring designs are executable and operationally sound.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in Network Architecture and Engineering within complex, global enterprise environments, with a career trajectory that proves you have retained your hands-on edge.
- Proven track record of designing and deploying enterprise SD-WAN topologies alongside native, production-level ZTNA implementations.
- Expert-level mastery of foundational routing, switching, and data center transport protocols, including BGP, EVPN, and VXLAN, as well as complex stateful firewall configurations.
- Deep experience designing and managing cloud-native network systems that span multiple public cloud environments (specifically GCP and Azure), with a keen eye on operability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Strong proficiency utilizing Python, Terraform, or Ansible for production infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication. You possess the executive presence to present risk profiles to senior leadership and the tactical clarity to guide a bridge call during a critical incident.
Nice To Haves
- Palo Alto PCNSE/PCCSE or Zscaler certifications (ZTDA/ZTDE).
- Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700). Or Google / AWS equivalent.
- CCIE (Route/Switch or Security) is highly valued but not required if equivalent deep architectural experience can be demonstrated.
Responsibilities
- Take primary accountability for translating business requirements into technical blueprints, leading the hands-on engineering and physical rollout of global SD-WAN and cloud network nodes.
- Develop, review, and maintain programmatic infrastructure playbooks (via Terraform and Ansible) to automate the global environment, ensuring you drive execution rather than merely suggesting it.
- Serve as the absolute tier-4 engineering authority for complex network outages, leading rigorous Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions that translate technical failures into structural business improvements.
- Architect, build, and optimize transit gateways, VPC/VNet peering, and high-speed dedicated interconnects powering a high-availability multi-cloud ecosystem across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.
- Implement functional, secure micro-segmentation and rigorous identity-based access controls across our hybrid footprint, shifting away from legacy edge assumptions to a mature ZTNA framework.
- Take the absolute lead in configuring secure web gateways and Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). Own the global policy sets, SSL decryption strategies, and threat prevention profiles.
- Drive architectural reviews and intake processes, ensuring all business technology initiatives align with enterprise network standards and security compliance requirements.
- Lead deep technical evaluations and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with core technology providers (Palo Alto, Zscaler, Microsoft, Google) while translating highly complex technical "war stories" into clear, risk-mitigated executive summaries for BT leadership.
- Actively mentor, coach, and elevate senior and mid-level network engineers, building a high-performance culture rooted in technical precision and engineering discipline.
Benefits
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Employee Groups
- Generous benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work-life balance
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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