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Serves as the senior technical authority for data center fabric and WAN transport, including the high-bandwidth, low-latency network underlay required to support high-performance compute (HPC) and other data-intensive workloads. Translates healthcare business, clinical, and regulatory requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure network architectures. Acts as a liaison with vendors and third-party providers and partners closely with engineering, security, and customer teams to guide the network's strategic direction across highly available, compliance-driven healthcare infrastructure. This is a network architecture role focused on the connectivity fabric that delivers bandwidth and throughput to compute and storage platforms, not on designing or administering the HPC compute clusters themselves.\nLocation: US Remote - Work from Home with up to 25% Travel\nCareer Level Summary\nRecognized as an expert within the company and requires in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline and broad knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function\nSolves unique, high-impact problems that affect multiple teams, products, or customers\nContributes to the development of organizational sub-function strategy, including data center and WAN roadmaps\nWorks independently, with guidance sought only in the most complex or novel situations\nProgression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements\nCritical Competencies\nExcellence: Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results.\nCustomer-driven: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success.\nExpertise: Possesses deep understanding of customer needs and continually grows and enhances skills to provide customer-focused solutions.\nAgility: Quickly adapts and responds to dynamic customer needs and expectations through innovative solutions.\nCompassion: Cultivates a positive and supportive environment to effectively work together towards a common goal, fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwns end-to-end architecture of the global data center fabric, including spine-leaf and Clos-based designs, EVPN/VXLAN overlay, and high-density, low-latency topologies that support both enterprise and HPC workloads\nArchitects and evolves the enterprise WAN, including MPLS, SD-WAN, dark fiber, and DWDM transport, to deliver resilient, low-latency connectivity between data centers, campuses, and cloud on-ramps\nArchitects high-bandwidth, non-blocking network fabrics that deliver the throughput, low latency, and lossless transport required by HPC, GPU cluster, and distributed storage workloads (network connectivity only; does not design or manage the compute/HPC cluster itself)\nDefines routing and control-plane architecture across BGP, OSPF, and EVPN, including multi-site route policy, redistribution, and traffic engineering\nArchitects and maintains Cisco ACI fabric environments, including tenant design, endpoint groups, contracts, and fabric integration\nArchitects and maintains Cisco SD-Access (SDA) fabric environments, including underlay/overlay design, fabric edge/border/control-plane nodes, and DNA Center-based policy and segmentation\nDesigns, configures, and troubleshoots Palo Alto Networks firewalls, including security policy design, NAT, VPN, and threat prevention\nDesigns and manages network access control (NAC) policies and device compliance using Forescout or similar tools\nLeads capacity planning and lifecycle strategy for data center and WAN infrastructure, balancing performance, redundancy, and cost\nServes as the highest-level escalation point for complex, service-impacting data center and WAN incidents, including routing protocol, fabric/switching connectivity, and firewall policy conflicts, driving root-cause analysis and long-term remediation\nOwns and is held accountable to defined delivery metrics for data center and WAN infrastructure including network availability %, MTTR for service-impacting incidents, and RTO/RPO targets for clinical-failover scenarios as established with healthcare customers and internal stakeholders.\nCoordinates incident communication and downtime procedures with hospital IT, clinical/nursing informatics, and biomedical engineering teams during service-impacting events affecting patient-care systems\nPartners with network security architecture teams to ensure segmentation, firewall policy, and access-control designs align with data center and WAN topology\nDevelops automation and infrastructure-as-code practices (Python, Ansible, or equivalent) to standardize provisioning, validation, and change management across the fabric\nPlans and executes network changes around clinical change-freeze windows and blackout periods (e.g., surgical schedules, EHR go-lives), coordinating timing with hospital operations to avoid disruption to patient-care systems\nResearches, evaluates, and recommends emerging data center, WAN, and HPC networking technologies and vendors based on performance, scalability, and business value\nLeads implementation planning and peer design reviews for major infrastructure initiatives, including new data center builds, fabric refreshes, and WAN transport migrations\nCreates and maintains architecture documentation, low-level and high-level design (LLD/HLD) artifacts, network diagrams, and standard operating procedures\nMentors and provides technical guidance to network engineers and architects across the organization\nContributes to disaster recovery and business continuity planning for data center and WAN environments, with attention to the uptime and failover requirements of clinical and patient-care systems\nDesigns network architecture to support healthcare-specific workloads, including EHR/EMR platforms (e.g., Epic, Cerner), PACS/medical imaging, HL7/FHIR integration engines, and connected medical devices, as well as life-safety network domains such as nurse call systems, physician paging, and emergency communication networks\nEnsures data center and WAN designs align with HIPAA, HITRUST, and other healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements, partnering with security and compliance teams on network segmentation and PHI data-flow controls\nMaintains audit-ready evidence of network segmentation and PHI data-flow controls to support customer HIPAA/HITRUST assessments and regulatory audits\nArchitects provable tenant-to-tenant traffic isolation across shared data center and WAN infrastructure, ensuring one health system customer's PHI-bearing traffic cannot be accessed by or commingled with another's\nSupports high-availability architecture for mission-critical healthcare environments, including hospital and clinical site connectivity, disaster recovery, and zero/near-zero downtime failover\nParticipates in a 24x7 on-call support rotation supporting clinical operations, with defined incident response and escalation SLAs\nKnowledge\nExpert-level knowledge of data center fabric architecture, including spine-leaf design, VXLAN/EVPN overlays, and multi-site fabric interconnect\nExpert-level knowledge of WAN architecture, including MPLS, SD-WAN, and optical/DWDM transport design\nAdvanced knowledge of BGP and OSPF design, troubleshooting, and traffic engineering across multi-site environments\nAdvanced knowledge of Cisco ACI architecture and data center fabric design, and Cisco SD-Access architecture and campus fabric design\nStrong knowledge of network security architecture, including Palo Alto Networks firewall policy design and segmentation strategies, and its integration with data center and WAN design\nStrong knowledge of network access control (NAC) concepts and enforcement using Forescout or similar tools\nWorking knowledge of equipment and platforms from multiple vendors, such as Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto Networks\nWorking knowledge of healthcare IT infrastructure and compliance requirements, including HIPAA, HITRUST, and network architecture supporting EHR/EMR, PACS, and clinical/biomedical device connectivity\nWorking knowledge of Business Associate Agreement (BAA) implications when selecting or onboarding network transport, colocation, or cloud on-ramp vendors that touch PHI-adjacent traffic\nSkills\nData Center & WAN Architecture and Design\nHigh-Bandwidth Network Fabric Design for HPC/GPU Workloads\nAdvanced Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, EVPN/VXLAN)\nAdvanced Switching (VLANs, STP, port-channels, vPC)\nNetwork Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code (Python, Ansible)\nNetwork Security & NAC (Palo Alto Networks, Forescout)\nCapacity Planning & Traffic Engineering\nHealthcare Network Compliance (HIPAA/HITRUST) & PHI Data-Flow Design\nComplex Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis\nTechnical Documentation & Network Diagramming (LLD/HLD)\nVendor & Stakeholder Management\nCoaching & Mentoring\nClient/Customer Service\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with HL7/FHIR interface engines and medical device network integration (biomedical/IoMT)\nPrior experience architecting infrastructure for hospital systems, health systems, or healthcare SaaS providers\nExperience with cloud on-ramp and hybrid connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, or equivalent)\nExposure to network detection and response / traffic analysis tools (e.g., ExtraHop)\nEducation\nHigh School Diploma or regional equivalent required\nBachelor's Degree required, preferably in a related field. At the manager's discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement\nCertifications\nCCNP or higher required (Enterprise, Data Center, or Service Provider track); CCIE strongly preferred\nData center or cloud networking certifications (e.g., Cisco Data Center, Arista ACE, Juniper JNCIE) a plus\nHealthcare compliance certifications (e.g., HITRUST CCSFP, HCISPP) a plus\nExperience\n15+ years of progressive network engineering/architecture experience required, including hands-on experience architecting data center fabric and WAN transport, with demonstrated experience building high-bandwidth, low-latency network fabric to support HPC or other data-intensive compute workloads\nDemonstrated experience architecting network infrastructure for health systems, payers, or healthcare SaaS platforms required, including direct (not merely exposure-level) experience in HIPAA/HITRUST-regulated environments, clinical system connectivity, and supporting customer compliance audits\nPhysical Demands\nGeneral office environment. May require long periods sitting and viewing a computer monitor. Moderate levels of stress may occur at times. No special physical demands required. Due to the 24x7 operations of the business, must be able to work a flexible work schedule, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.\nTravel\nOccasional domestic/international travel, less than 25%.\n#LI-Remote #LI-DB1\n\nOur compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets. The compensation range for this position ranges from $165,830.00/year in our lowest geographic market up to 243,141.80 USD/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). 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