Hybrid Data Center Network Architect for HPC/AI Backbone

GTN Technical Staffing; Dallas, Fort Worth (TX, TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing is recruiting a Network Architect to lead the design and architecture of large-scale data center backbone networks, WAN connectivity, cloud interconnects, and customer peering environments for high-performance computing and AI infrastructure.

The role requires deep experience in data center networking, carrier-grade routing, and multi-tenant design, with responsibility for standards, security, observability, and capacity planning across data centers, cloud providers, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Network Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years designing or architecting large-scale data center/backbone networks.
• Deep expertise in data center networking architectures (EVPN, VXLAN, BGP).
• Experience with WAN architecture, carrier connectivity, internet peering, transit, and interconnect strategies.
• Strong skills in routing policy, traffic engineering, redundancy, failover, and capacity planning.
• Ability to design highly available, high-bandwidth, low-latency networks and multi-tenant connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of large-scale data center backbone and data center interconnect (DCI) environments.
• Design scalable, resilient network architectures for HPC, AI/ML workloads.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures for WAN connectivity and cloud interconnects.
• Define standards for routing, traffic engineering, redundancy, telemetry, and observability.
• Design and optimize connectivity between data centers, cloud platforms, carriers, customers, and providers.
• Develop secure multi-tenant networking architectures with customer isolation and SLA adherence.
• Establish standards for peering, transit, interconnection, and backbone capacity management.
• Align backbone architecture with long-term capacity forecasts and business growth.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects and platform teams to ensure alignment with workloads.
• Ensure security, segmentation, compliance, monitoring, and operational visibility across the architecture.
• Evaluate routing policies, traffic flows, and latency in large distributed environments.

Skills

EVPN

VXLAN

BGP

Data center networking

WAN architecture

Multi-tenant networking

Network security

Observability/Telemetry

Traffic engineering

Routing policy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE or related

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing is recruiting a Network Architect to lead the design and architecture of large-scale data center backbone networks, WAN connectivity, cloud interconnects, and customer peering environments for high-performance computing and AI infrastructure.

The role requires deep experience in data center networking, carrier-grade routing, and multi-tenant design, with responsibility for standards, security, observability, and capacity planning across data centers, cloud providers, and