Network Architect
Pace Industries
- # Network ArchitectApply: US-Work from Home: Full time: Posted Today: R-23798**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 breadth of expertise in own job discipline and broad knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function* Solves unique, high-impact problems that affect multiple teams, products, or customers* Contributes to the development of organizational sub-function strategy, including data center and WAN roadmaps* Works independently, with guidance sought only in the most complex or novel situations* Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements **Critical Competencies*** **Excellence:** Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results.* **Customer-driven:** Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success.* **Expertise:** Possesses deep understanding of customer needs and continually grows and enhances skills to provide customer-focused solutions.* **Agility:** Quickly adapts and responds to dynamic customer needs and expectations through innovative solutions.* **Compassion:** Cultivates a positive and supportive environment to effectively work together towards a common goal, fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities*** Owns 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* Architects 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* Architects 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)* Defines routing and control-plane architecture across BGP, OSPF, and EVPN, including multi-site route policy, redistribution, and traffic engineering* Leads capacity planning and lifecycle strategy for data center and WAN infrastructure, balancing performance, redundancy, and cost* Serves as the highest-level escalation point for complex, service-impacting data center and WAN incidents, driving root-cause analysis and long-term remediation* Owns 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.* Coordinates incident communication and downtime procedures with hospital IT, clinical/nursing informatics, and biomedical engineering teams during service-impacting events affecting patient-care systems* Partners with network security architecture teams to ensure segmentation, firewall policy, and access-control designs align with data center and WAN topology* Develops automation and infrastructure-as-code practices (Python, Ansible, or equivalent) to standardize provisioning, validation, and change management across the fabric* Plans 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* Researches, evaluates, and recommends emerging data center, WAN, and HPC networking technologies and vendors based on performance, scalability, and business value* Leads implementation planning and peer design reviews for major infrastructure initiatives, including new data center builds, fabric refreshes, and WAN transport migrations* Creates and maintains architecture documentation, low-level and high-level design (LLD/HLD) artifacts, network diagrams, and standard operating procedures* Mentors and provides technical guidance to network engineers and architects across the organization* Contributes 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* Designs 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* Ensures 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* Maintains audit-ready evidence of network segmentation and PHI data-flow controls to support customer HIPAA/HITRUST assessments and regulatory audits* Architects 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* Supports high-availability architecture for mission-critical healthcare environments, including hospital and clinical site connectivity, disaster recovery, and zero/near-zero downtime failover* Participates in a 24x7 on-call support rotation supporting clinical operations, with defined incident response and escalation SLAs **Knowledge*** Expert-level knowledge of data center fabric architecture, including spine-leaf design, VXLAN/EVPN overlays, and multi-site fabric interconnect* Expert-level knowledge of WAN architecture, including MPLS, SD-WAN, and optical/DWDM transport design* Advanced knowledge of BGP and OSPF design, troubleshooting, and traffic engineering across multi-site environments* Strong knowledge of network security architecture and its integration with data center and WAN design* Working knowledge of equipment and platforms from multiple vendors, such as Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto Networks* Working knowledge of healthcare IT infrastructure and compliance requirements, including HIPAA, HITRUST, and network architecture supporting EHR/EMR, PACS, and clinical/biomedical device connectivity* Working knowledge of Business Associate Agreement (BAA) implications when selecting or onboarding network transport, colocation, or cloud on-ramp vendors that touch PHI-adjacent traffic **Skills*** Data Center & WAN Architecture and Design* High-Bandwidth Network Fabric Design for HPC/GPU Workloads* Advanced Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, EVPN/VXLAN)* Network Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code (Python, Ansible)* Capacity Planning & Traffic Engineering* Healthcare Network Compliance (HIPAA/HITRUST) & PHI Data-Flow Design* Complex Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis* Technical Documentation & Network Diagramming (LLD/HLD)* Vendor & Stakeholder Management* Coaching & Mentoring* Client/Customer Service **Nice to Have*** Familiarity with HL7/FHIR interface engines and medical device network integration (biomedical/IoMT)* Prior experience architecting infrastructure for hospital systems, health systems, or healthcare SaaS providers* Experience with cloud on-ramp and hybrid connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, or equivalent)* Exposure to network detection and response / traffic analysis tools (e.g., ExtraHop) **Education*** High School Diploma or regional equivalent required* Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in a related field. At the manager's discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement **Certifications*** CCNP or higher required (Enterprise, Data Center, or Service Provider track); CCIE strongly preferred* Data center or cloud networking certifications (e.g., Cisco Data Center, Arista ACE, Juniper JNCIE) a plus* Healthcare compliance certifications (e.g., HITRUST CCSFP, HCISPP) a plus **Experience*** 15+ 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* Demonstrated 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 **Physical Demands**General 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. **Travel**Occasional domestic/international travel, less than 25%.
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