Principal Global Backbone & Edge Architect — Equity

Nscale; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work culture

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Nscale seeks a Principal Network Backbone & Edge Architect to guide the global network design, from data centre edge to cloud exchange. You will define standards, validate deployments, and influence the evolution of our backbone and edge technologies.

You will collaborate with carriers, hyperscalers, and customers, translating architecture into scalable, robust implementations and hands-on validation in data centres.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of network engineering experience, including senior architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in large-scale IP/MPLS networks and backbone design.
• Experience with hyperscale data centres and carrier-grade WAN.
• Hands-on with Nokia SR platforms and coherent optical transport.
• Strong ability to produce architecture designs and standards.
• Experience engaging enterprise customers and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain global network architecture standards across DC edge, WAN edge, backbone transport, cloud exchange, OOB/management, and automation architecture.
• Lead the design of new network infrastructure deployments across regions.
• Produce detailed network designs, topology documentation, IP addressing schemes, and routing policy frameworks.
• Define technology selection criteria and lead vendor and technology evaluations for major network infrastructure decisions.
• Conduct architecture reviews for significant network changes, ensuring alignment with global standards before implementation.
• Maintain and evolve network design standards library across regions.
• Engage with strategic technology and connectivity partners on architecture roadmaps and capabilities.
• Support enterprise customers and hyperscalers in architecture discussions.

Skills

IP/MPLS design

SRv6

IPv6

BGP

Traffic engineering

Multi-AS routing

OpenConfig

NETCONF

YANG

API-driven infra

Nokia SR routing platforms

Tools

Nokia SR routing platforms

Job description

Nscale seeks a Principal Network Backbone & Edge Architect to guide the global network design, from data centre edge to cloud exchange. You will define standards, validate deployments, and influence the evolution of our backbone and edge technologies.

You will collaborate with carriers, hyperscalers, and customers, translating architecture into scalable, robust implementations and hands-on validation in data centres.