Senior Backbone & Peering Architect for HPC & Cloud

NorthMark Compute & Cloud; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Employer-paid medical benefits

Dental & Vision

Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

401(k) match

PPO option for additional benefits

Paid time off: 25 days + 12 holidays

Job summary

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) seeks an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design and reference architecture of the HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, cloud provider on-ramps, and customer peering. The role ensures secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity at scale for high-performance workloads.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in carrier networking, peering ecosystems, and multi-tenant security, defining standards that enable growth, SLA

Qualifications

• 7+ years in large-scale data center network design/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 and AI/ML workloads
• Strong leadership, and project management capabilities

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the data center backbone interconnect (DCI) for scalability and reliability
• Publish reference architectures for WAN connectivity and cloud interconnects
• Define routing, traffic engineering, failover and telemetry standards
• Align backbone design with capacity forecasts and business growth
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to match workloads to designs
• Embed security, compliance, and observability in architecture
• Develop multi-tenant secure networking patterns for tenant isolation and SLAs
• Contribute to digital twin models with network capacity/topology simulations

Skills

Strong communication

Leadership

Project management

Documentation

HPC workloads familiarity

Security & observability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering

Tools

EVPN

VXLAN

Leaf-Spine fabrics

Job description

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) seeks an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design and reference architecture of the HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, cloud provider on-ramps, and customer peering. The role ensures secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity at scale for high-performance workloads.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in carrier networking, peering ecosystems, and multi-tenant security, defining standards that enable growth, SLA