Senior Network Data Center Engineer

Corebridge Financial•Houston, TX

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is part of the Network Services Architecture team and will lead the design and modernization of enterprise data center, cloud, routing, and switching platforms. The focus is on building secure, resilient, scalable, and highly available network solutions for a large financial-services environment. In this role, the Senior Engineer will create network architecture standards, reference designs, roadmaps, and governance processes while partnering closely with architecture, security, risk, application, cloud, and operations teams to ensure network designs align with enterprise needs. The role also provides senior-level expertise across data center fabrics, cloud connectivity, routing, switching, load balancing, DDI, segmentation, automation, and network observability. The ideal candidate is a senior network architect or engineer with deep hands-on experience in enterprise networking technologies such as Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, Arista, Juniper Apstra, F5, cloud networking, network security, and automation. This person should be able to translate business, security, compliance, and application requirements into practical network designs that are reliable, supportable, auditable, and cost effective.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; advanced certifications such as CCIE, Arista ACE, Juniper JNCIE, cloud networking, or equivalent are preferred.
15+ years of enterprise network engineering, architecture, and operational support experience, including 5+ years as a senior data center network architect, design engineer, or solution architect; financial services or regulated-industry experience is preferred.
Deep expertise in enterprise data center networking, including routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, EVPN/VXLAN, segmentation, high availability, QoS, multicast, IP addressing, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, traffic engineering, performance, capacity, and resiliency.
Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, Arista switching platforms, Arista CloudVision, Juniper Apstra, software-defined data center fabrics, orchestration, fabric lifecycle management, and standardized design patterns.
Strong cloud networking experience across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, including hybrid connectivity, cloud routing, transit architecture, segmentation, DNS integration, private connectivity, security controls, and data center-to-cloud connectivity patterns.
Experience with enterprise load balancing, application delivery, and network security technologies, including F5 LTM/GTM, Palo Alto, ZTNA, secure web gateway or cloud proxy platforms, DDoS protection, NAC, micro-segmentation, and firewall policy alignment.
Ability to translate business, application, security, compliance, and operational requirements into practical network architecture, business cases, cost models, scopes of work, implementation plans, vendor recommendations, and deployment roadmaps.
Strong troubleshooting, observability, and incident support skills using packet analyzers, NetBrain, NetScout, Spectrum, OpenText Network Automation, AppViewX, cloud-native monitoring, telemetry, logging, and related tools.
Experience creating architecture standards, design templates, diagrams, operating models, implementation guides, governance processes, compliance documentation, lifecycle plans, audit materials, and operational handoff documentation.
Excellent communication, collaboration, leadership, project delivery, mentoring, and influencing skills, with the ability to guide senior leaders, architects, engineering teams, operations, managed service providers, and strategic vendors.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior technical architect and trusted advisor for enterprise data center, cloud networking, routing, switching, and network modernization initiatives.
Develop and govern network architecture standards, reference designs, design patterns, deployment models, roadmaps, diagrams, implementation guides, and operational handoff documentation.
Lead architecture and design reviews across data center fabrics, enterprise routing and switching, hybrid cloud connectivity, application delivery, DDI, segmentation, security integration, observability, and automation.
Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, cyber security, risk, audit, operations, procurement, and vendor teams to ensure network designs meet availability, resiliency, performance, security, compliance, and supportability requirements.
Recommend and guide adoption of new network technologies, software-defined data center models, cloud connectivity patterns, automation capabilities, and operational tooling improvements.
Review and approve network changes for architecture alignment, technical risk, resiliency, security controls, operational impact, rollback readiness, and compliance considerations.
Act as a Level 3 escalation resource for major incidents and complex network issues, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and architectural guidance during Severity 1 and Severity 2 events.
Lead automation and AI-enabled operations improvements, including scripting, templates, configuration validation, compliance checks, workflow automation, tool integration, and repeatable deployment practices.
Support platform lifecycle management, vendor risk reviews, capacity planning, CVE and end-of-life remediation, technology refresh planning, audit readiness, and executive-ready technical documentation.