Senior Datacenter, Cloud & Network Architect

Pomeroy; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pomeroy seeks a Senior Datacenter, Cloud & Network Solution Architect to lead secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure designs for enterprise clients. This client-facing role emphasizes Cisco-based network architecture and hybrid/public cloud strategies, with governance across architecture validation and migration planning.

The successful candidate will partner with Sales, Engineering, Delivery, Security, Finance, OEMs, carriers, and technology partners to shape modernization opportunities

Qualifications

• Active CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certification required.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, telecommunications, or a related discipline, or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• Ten or more years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure with architecture responsibility for large datacenter, cloud, and network environments.
• Demonstrated success designing complex Cisco network solutions and hybrid infrastructure architectures for medium to large enterprise clients.
• Hands-on architectural depth across datacenter networking, compute, virtualization, storage, cloud connectivity, network security, availability, disaster recovery, and migration planning.
• Experience developing architecture deliverables including diagrams, bills of material, design documents, migration roadmaps, test strategies, implementation assumptions, and technical statements of work.
• Excellent written, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Strong quantitative and financial skills, including solution estimation, lifecycle cost comparison, cloud-consumption analysis, and commercial risk identification.
• High proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio or equivalent architecture‑diagramming tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead client discovery workshops to document objectives, application/workload requirements, security, availability, recovery objectives, capacity, and growth assumptions.
• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures for enterprise datacenters, colocation environments, edge locations, and hybrid/multi-cloud platforms.
• Design integrated solutions across compute, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, cloud services, network, security, observability, automation, and disaster recovery.
• Produce high-level and low-level designs, diagrams, traffic flows, BOMs, migration roadmaps, and architecture decision records.
• Evaluate architecture alternatives and document tradeoffs related to resilience, performance, security, interoperability, lifecycle, and cost.
• Provide technical governance through design reviews, standards alignment, exception management, and architecture approval checkpoints.
• Translate requirements into architecture narratives, diagrams, proposals, and statements of work.
• Lead whiteboarding sessions and present recommendations to executives and engineering teams.
• Create and validate cost inputs, licensing assumptions, and cloud-consumption estimates for proposals.
• Partner with OEMs, cloud providers, and carriers to validate feasibility, pricing, and responsibilities.
• Support RFP/RFI responses and negotiate statements of work while protecting solution integrity.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Network depth

Cloud judgment

Commercial awareness

Client influence

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related

Master's degree is a plus

Tools

Cisco UCS

VMware

Kubernetes

Nexus

ACI

UCS/Networking tools

Job description

Pomeroy seeks a Senior Datacenter, Cloud & Network Solution Architect to lead secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure designs for enterprise clients. This client-facing role emphasizes Cisco-based network architecture and hybrid/public cloud strategies, with governance across architecture validation and migration planning.

The successful candidate will partner with Sales, Engineering, Delivery, Security, Finance, OEMs, carriers, and technology partners to shape modernization opportunities