Network Architect

Prodapt; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodapt is seeking a Network Architect to design and govern multi-regional enterprise network architectures spanning data center, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes scalable, secure by design solutions and informed trade-offs across cost, risk, and performance.

The candidate will evaluate technologies across vendors, define standards, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams to ensure end-to-end design coherence and alignment with

Qualifications

• BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP knowledge with hands-on exposure in large-scale networks.
• Data center networking and fabric design experience.
• Strong understanding of network security principles and segmentation.
• Familiarity with SDN implementations (e.g., NSX) and overlay/underlay concepts.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern enterprise network designs across data center, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define standards, patterns, and reference architectures to ensure consistency.
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, and security by design across environments.
• Perform trade-off analyses balancing performance, cost, risk, and operability.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, application, and infra teams to align on architectural direction.
• Provide end-to-end design coherence and governance; review designs for architectural fidelity.
• Guide engineering and delivery teams and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.

Skills

BGP

OSPF

TCP/IP

Data center design

Network security

SDN

VXLAN

Linux networking

OS-level troubleshooting

Containers

HA/DR design

Multi-region interconnects

Secure access

Tools

NSX

Job description

A Network Architect is responsible for designing and governing network architecture that supports business services.

This includes translating requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient designs, and making informed trade-off decisions across cost, risk, and performance.

Core Responsibilities:

• Architecture and Design
• Design enterprise network architecture across data center, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Define standards, patterns, and reference architectures
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, and security by design
• Trade-off and Decision Making:
• Balance performance, cost, risk, and operability
• Evaluate competing approaches (e.g., overlay vs underlay, vendor vs open solutions)
• Make design decisions at the system level rather than the device level
• This is a key differentiator compared to a technical project manager or engineer
• Vendor and Technology Neutrality:
• Evaluate technologies across multiple vendors (e.g., Cisco, VMware, Juniper) and open source.
• Avoid designing around a single vendor’s constraints or bias
• Select solutions based on best architectural fit
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams
• Own end-to-end design coherence rather than isolated components
• Typically involves large-scale enterprise or highly regulated environments with multi-region and high-resilience requirements
• Align stakeholders across security, operations, business, and vendors
• Manage conflicting requirements such as:
• Security vs usability
• Cost vs resiliency
• Speed vs governance
• Drive decisions to closure through effective communication
• Governance and Standards:
• Define and enforce network standards
• Review designs to ensure alignment with architectural principles
• Provide guidance to engineering and delivery teams

Required Skills:

• Technical (Core Expectations)
• Routing and protocols: BGP (mandatory), OSPF, TCP/IP
• Data center networking and fabric design
• Network security principles (e.g., segmentation, access control)
• Software-defined networking (e.g., NSX)
• VXLAN and overlay networking
• Platform expertise:
• Strong Linux and networking integration
• Ability to troubleshoot network issues at the operating system level
• Y working with containers and infrastructure tooling
• Experience
• Proven delivery of complex, enterprise-scale projects
• Preferably within financial services or similarly regulated environments
• Experience with:
• High availability and disaster recovery designs
• Multi-region and data center interconnects
• Secure access models
• Soft Skills (Critical for the Role)
• Strong ability to articulate trade-offs
• Confidence in constructively challenging stakeholders
• Clear communication across both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to drive decisions, not just facilitate discussions
• Anti-Patterns (What This Role Is Not)
• Not a technical project manager
• Not limited to facilitating discussions
• Not focused solely on explaining architecture without making decisions