Global Transport Architect

MKS Instruments, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage (medical, Rx

401(k) with company match

Life and disability insurance

12 paid holidays

Sick time

15 paid vacation days

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

MKS Instruments, Inc. is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead global transport engineering, circuit architecture, and carrier connectivity across the enterprise.

You will define standards for WAN, internet, and inter-site connectivity and oversee circuit lifecycle from design to turn-up. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Network Engineering, you will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and collaborate with carriers, MSPs, sourcing, and security teams to deliver resilient,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in transport engineering, telecommunications, carrier connectivity, WAN services, or circuit lifecycle management.
• Deep experience with circuit technologies such as DIA, MPLS, Ethernet, broadband, wavelength services, cross-connects, cloud on-ramps, and private connectivity.
• Strong understanding of carrier ordering processes, service delivery milestones, LOA/CFA workflows, demarcation coordination, circuit acceptance, and provider escalation models.
• Expertise in designing resilient transport solutions using diverse carriers, diverse physical paths, redundant access models, and validated failover requirements.
• Experience developing engineering standards, implementation templates, test plans, acceptance criteria, operational runbooks, and lifecycle management processes.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills for transport-layer issues including latency, jitter, packet loss, asymmetric routing, MTU, carrier handoff, and failover behavior.
• Working knowledge of WAN routing concepts, carrier handoffs, redundancy models, QoS considerations, and enterprise connectivity design as they relate to transport services.
• Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and drive alignment across global infrastructure and operations teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical transport requirements into business risk, resiliency, and cost considerations

Responsibilities

• Lead global transport engineering strategy, standards, and architecture for enterprise WAN, internet, cloud, and inter-site connectivity.
• Own standards for circuit ordering, carrier selection, bandwidth sizing, service types, demarcation requirements, and handoff expectations.
• Define and enforce carrier diversity, last-mile diversity, POP diversity, path diversity, and redundancy requirements for critical sites.
• Develop transport testing standards including circuit acceptance testing and resiliency checks.
• Provide technical oversight for circuit lifecycle management from requirements to decommissioning.
• Partner with carriers, MSPs, sourcing, facilities, security, cloud, and infrastructure teams for reliable connectivity.
• Drive standardization of transport documentation, topology diagrams, circuit inventories, escalation paths, and operational handoff.
• Serve as senior escalation point for complex transport, carrier, routing, latency, and diversity issues

Skills

Global transport engineering

Enterprise WAN

Carrier connectivity

Standards development

Technical leadership

Network design

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Job description

MKS Instruments, Inc. is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead global transport engineering, circuit architecture, and carrier connectivity across the enterprise.

You will define standards for WAN, internet, and inter-site connectivity and oversee circuit lifecycle from design to turn-up. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Network Engineering, you will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and collaborate with carriers, MSPs, sourcing, and security teams to deliver resilient,