HPC Data Center Backbone Architect

NorthMark Compute and Cloud LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Employer-paid medical

Dental & Vision

Job summary

NorthMark Compute & Cloud is seeking an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design of our HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, and cloud on-ramps. This role is critical to delivering secure, scalable connectivity at scale for our research and production workloads.

You will define standards for routing, telemetry, security, and multi-tenant patterns, align backbone architecture with capacity forecasts, and collaborate with Solutions Architects to optimize workload

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience in large-scale data center network design or architecture.
• Deep expertise in data center fabrics (leaf-spine, Clos, EVPN, VXLAN).
• Experience with WAN, peering, and interconnect strategies.
• Familiarity with HPC workloads and high-bandwidth, low-latency requirements.
• Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience with hyperscale or GPU-accelerated environments, supporting AI/ML workloads, infrastructure monitoring, or simulation models.
• Strong communicator with leadership and project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the data center backbone interconnect (DCI), ensuring scalability, redundancy, and performance.
• Design and publish reference architectures for WAN connectivity, cloud service provider interconnects, and backbone extensions.
• Define architectural standards for routing, traffic engineering, failover, and telemetry across backbone networks.
• Align backbone design with capacity planning forecasts and long-term business growth.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to align network design with workload patterns.
• Ensure network security, compliance, and observability are embedded in architecture.
• Develop multi-tenant secure networking patterns to support customer isolation and SLA adherence
• Contribute to digital twin models with network capacity and topology simulations.

Skills

Data center fabrics

WAN connectivity

Peering ecosystems

EVPN/VXLAN

Security & compliance

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Leadership / project management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/EE

Tools

EVPN

VXLAN

Job description

NorthMark Compute & Cloud is seeking an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design of our HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, and cloud on-ramps. This role is critical to delivering secure, scalable connectivity at scale for our research and production workloads.

You will define standards for routing, telemetry, security, and multi-tenant patterns, align backbone architecture with capacity forecasts, and collaborate with Solutions Architects to optimize workload