Senior Data Center Network Architect - Multi-Cloud & WAN

State of Colorado

Colorado

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) in Colorado seeks a Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to act as a senior technical expert and design authority for shared enterprise network services. You will architect, implement, and lead delivery of complex, multi-tenant networking across data centers, cloud connections, and WAN/SD-WAN environments.

You will define standards, mentor engineers, and coordinate with cloud providers, carriers, and vendors.

Qualifications

Five (5) years of experience as a Network Engineer designing, implementing, testing, and documenting complex Cisco-based network solutions.
3+ years designing and configuring advanced routing and switching for data centers, campus, and WAN networks (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, VRF, route policy).
3+ years designing or engineering private connectivity to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
2+ years engineering F5 BIG-IP local traffic management and high availability.
2+ years automating network configuration using Python, Ansible, Terraform with Git version control.

Responsibilities

Serve as a technical lead for enterprise network projects and onboarding member organizations to shared services.
Architect scalable, secure designs for data center networks, cloud connectivity, WAN/SD-WAN, Internet edge, and multi-tenant routing.
Define high availability, DR, and capacity strategies across data centers and cloud regions.
Define service levels and monitoring telemetry to measure performance.
Mentor engineers, review work, and coordinate with cloud providers, carriers, vendors, and state partners.