# Senior Network Architect

Job Profile Summary Responsible for the strategic architecture, design, and technical direction of Rackspace's global data center and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure, with a primary focus on healthcare customer environments. 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. Location: US Remote - Work from Home with up to 25% Travel Career Level Summary Recognized as an expert within the company and requires in-depth and/or brea

- **Id**: 1096894
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rackspace-technology-network-architect>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T18:59:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:32:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 13396
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Managed IT Services (MSP), AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 46166
- **Name**: Rackspace Technology
- **Domain**: rackspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rackspace>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0.077
- **Stale share**: 0.385
- **Repost share**: 0.231
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165830
- **Max**: 243141
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 243141

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **MPLS** — Optional: no
- **OSPF** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **VPN** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T18:59:08Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.832
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:8, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 243141
- **Is top pay**: yes

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