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Our mission is to transition the world to renewable energy through the sustainable development and responsible operation of facilities with respect for the environment, communities, and cultures where we have a presence.\nOur approach begins and ends with establishing trust, accountability, and transparency. Our company values of creative spirit, pride of ownership, follow-through, and a team-first attitude drive us to pursue our mission every day. Our culture supports our values by fostering innovative and critical thinking and a deep belief in living up to our promises.\nHeadquartered in the United States, Pattern has a global portfolio of more than 30 power facilities and transmission assets, serving various customers that provide low-cost clean energy to millions of consumers.\nResponsibilities\nThe Network Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, resilient, and scalable network infrastructure across both corporate IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments. This includes leading firewall architecture (Palo Alto and Fortigate), SD-WAN, dynamic routing, network segmentation, and NAT design, while ensuring the network's security posture meets NERC CIP compliance requirements. This position plays a critical role in protecting generation, substation, and SCADA environments while enabling reliable connectivity across the enterprise.\nKey Accountabilities\n Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise firewall architecture across Palo Alto and Fortigate platforms, including policy standardization and rule-base optimization\n Architect and manage SD-WAN fabric across corporate and OT sites, including transport selection, path steering policies, and failover design\nDesign and maintain dynamic routing (BGP/OSPF) across the WAN, data center, and OT environments to ensure resilient, redundant connectivity\nOwn network segmentation strategy (VLANs, zones, micro-segmentation) separating IT, OT, and DMZ environments per Purdue Model best practices\n Lead NERC CIP compliance efforts for network infrastructure, including Electronic Security Perimeter (ESP) design, access controls, and audit evidence support\nDesign and support OT network infrastructure connecting SCADA, substations, and generation sites, ensuring reliability and security\nServe as escalation point for complex network, firewall, and routing incidents; lead root-cause analysis\nMaintain network architecture documentation, standards, and disaster recovery/failover runbooks\nQualifications\nExperience/Qualifications/Education Required\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Network Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience. 8-10 years of progressive experience designing and supporting enterprise network and security infrastructure, with deep, hands-on expertise in Palo Alto and Fortigate firewall platforms (including Panorama and Fortimanager), SD-WAN architecture, dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), NAT design, and network segmentation. 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