Remote Senior Data Center Network Architect

Giga Energy Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Giga Energy Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own data center networking design and implementation across construction to operation. You will design switching/routing, cabling, segmentation, and security while guiding site standards for rapid rollout of multiple sites.

Heavy travel to active sites is required, with on-site reviews, testing, and turnover. You will lead commissioning, implement robust monitoring, and drive uptime across colocation deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and operating enterprise or data center networks.
• Hands-on depth in routing and switching: BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, spanning tree, link aggregation, firewalls, and out-of-band management.
• Hands-on network security experience: firewall policy design and maintenance on a next-generation platform, intrusion detection and prevention, segmentation and least-privilege access between zones, secure remote access, and network logging and alerting.
• Structured cabling fluency: fiber types and loss budgets, single-mode and multimode tradeoffs, pathway planning, TIA-942 or equivalent standards, and the ability to both specify and review a cabling design.
• Ability to read and mark up construction drawings, riser diagrams, and floor plans, and to hold your own in a design review with general contractors and low-voltage subcontractors.
• Experience operating a production network where downtime has real consequences: change control, monitoring, and troubleshooting live issues under pressure.
• Experience setting network standards from scratch rather than inheriting them.
• Willingness to travel to active sites regularly.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer, or network engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Own network architecture across portfolio: core and distribution switching, routing, out-of-band management, addressing and DNS, firewalls, and the standards and reference designs that make each new site a deployment rather than a redesign.
• Design the physical layer inside the facility: structured cabling, pathways and cable management, cabinet and cross-connect standards, and fiber and copper plant throughout the building.
• Own network security at the sites: firewall policy and rule lifecycle, intrusion detection and prevention, segmentation and access control between zones, secure remote access for staff and vendors, and network logging into our monitoring stack.
• Build the colocation side of the network: customer handoffs, cross-connect provisioning, and a repeatable process for turning up tenant connectivity without one-off engineering each time.
• Partner with the controls and security teams on OT networking: segmentation between IT and OT, network zones for SCADA and BMS, and reliable device-to-server paths for controls traffic.
• Write the specifications, drawings, and bills of material we hand to contractors and low-voltage vendors, and review their designs and submittals so we get what we specified. Own network commissioning at each site: point-to-point testing, fiber certification, labeling, as-built drawings, and turnover documentation.
• Run the network in production: monitoring and alerting, capacity planning, change control, configuration and firmware management, backups, and root cause analysis after events.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and act as the escalation point for network incidents at live sites.
• Write and maintain the standards, runbooks, and documentation that let the next site and the next engineer repeat this work without starting over.

Skills

Routing & Switching

Firewall & IDS

BGP/OSPF

Structured Cabling

Network Security

IT/OT Segmentation

Remote Access

Vendor-neutral

Travel Readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer, or network engineering

Job description

Giga Energy Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own data center networking design and implementation across construction to operation. You will design switching/routing, cabling, segmentation, and security while guiding site standards for rapid rollout of multiple sites.

Heavy travel to active sites is required, with on-site reviews, testing, and turnover. You will lead commissioning, implement robust monitoring, and drive uptime across colocation deployments.