HPC Data Center Backbone & Peering Architect

NMC2; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend via GrubHub

Employer-Paid Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid Parental Leave (16 weeks)

401(k) match up to 6%

Job summary

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) seeks a Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design of its HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, cloud service provider on-ramps, and customer peering. You will drive standards for multi-tenant security, routing, and telemetry, aligning with capacity forecasts and business growth.

The role requires deep expertise in data center fabrics, WAN/interconnect strategies, and high-bandwidth HPC workloads, with strong documentation and leadership skills

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

Network architecture

WAN/interconnect design

HPC workloads

Documentation

Leadership & PM

Education

Bachelors/Masters in CS/EE

Tools

EVPN

VXLAN

Data center fabrics

Job description

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) seeks a Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design of its HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, cloud service provider on-ramps, and customer peering. You will drive standards for multi-tenant security, routing, and telemetry, aligning with capacity forecasts and business growth.

The role requires deep expertise in data center fabrics, WAN/interconnect strategies, and high-bandwidth HPC workloads, with strong documentation and leadership skills