Remote Senior Network Architect: AI-Driven, Scalable Core

Lumen Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Network Architect to transform large-scale network infrastructure across Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks.

You will drive architecture standards, automation, and observability while guiding cross-functional teams in delivering resilient, secure, and scalable connectivity for enterprise and government workloads. The role emphasizes model-driven automation, streaming telemetry, and AI-enabled operations to improve service

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications are highly preferred.
• 10+ years of architecture and engineering experience in large-scale carrier, web-scale, or service-provider networks.
• Deep expertise in IGP, BGP, MPLS, multicast, VPN, and traffic-engineering technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks.
• Develop architecture standards and roadmaps for routing, switching, MPLS, multicast, carrier Ethernet, merchant-silicon platforms, optics, and high-speed interfaces.
• Design and govern network automation using model-driven interfaces, open APIs, infrastructure as code, reusable service models, automated testing.
• Design and develop streaming telemetry and observability solutions for network health, performance, capacity, service-level assurance, and compliance.
• Design and develop event-driven and closed-loop workflows for provisioning, validation, anomaly response, and remediation.
• Evaluate and apply AI-enabled capabilities for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, capacity forecasting, incident correlation, root-cause analysis, and guided operations.
• Lead proof-of-concepts, technical and economic evaluations, platform selection, and cross-functional architecture decisions.
• Provide technical leadership across IP, Optical/Transport, operations, security, data, and software engineering teams.

Skills

Network architecture

IP/Optical/Transport

Automation & Telemetry

Communication & negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/CS/Math

CCIE/JNCIE certifications (preferred)

Tools

Python

Ansible

NETCONF/YANG

RESTCONF

gNMI/gRPC

Job description

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Network Architect to transform large-scale network infrastructure across Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks.

You will drive architecture standards, automation, and observability while guiding cross-functional teams in delivering resilient, secure, and scalable connectivity for enterprise and government workloads. The role emphasizes model-driven automation, streaming telemetry, and AI-enabled operations to improve service