Cisco SD-WAN Architect - Enterprise Design & Deployment

Pinnacle Group, Inc.; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinnacle Group, Inc. is seeking a Cisco SD-WAN Solution Architect to independently review architecture and implement best practices for large-scale deployments.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise SD-WAN design assurance and production readiness across multiple sites. You will collaborate with customer engineering, partners, and delivery teams to validate designs, develop repeatable deployment standards, and drive architecture governance throughout design, validation, deployment, and

Qualifications

• 20+ years in enterprise networking or network engineering.
• 5+ years hands‑on Cisco SD-WAN / Viptela experience.
• Deep expertise in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN architecture and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Independently review and validate Cisco SD-WAN architecture and designs against best practices.
• Assess topology, hub/mesh architecture, routing, segmentation, resiliency, multicast, and configuration strategies.
• Review Feature Profile - Configuration Group - Site Persona - Device Variable models for scalability and consistency.
• Identify architectural gaps, risks, and scalability concerns, and propose standardization and automation improvements.
• Ensure repeatable deployment across diverse site types and environments.

Skills

SD-WAN Architecture

Viptela/Catalyst

Cisco Catalyst 8500/8300

Topology & Routing

Configuration Standardization

Hub-and-Spoke & Hub-Mesh

BGP/OSPF/Static Routing

IPsec/Overlay Architecture

QA and Deployment Guidance

Tools

Cisco vManage

Feature Profiles & Configuration Groups

Device Templates

Job description

Pinnacle Group, Inc. is seeking a Cisco SD-WAN Solution Architect to independently review architecture and implement best practices for large-scale deployments.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise SD-WAN design assurance and production readiness across multiple sites. You will collaborate with customer engineering, partners, and delivery teams to validate designs, develop repeatable deployment standards, and drive architecture governance throughout design, validation, deployment, and