Senior Global Transport Network Architect

MKS Instruments; Andover (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Disability insurance

12 paid holidays

15 paid vacation days

6 weeks parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

MKS Inc. invites a Principal Network Engineer to lead global transport engineering, setting standards for circuit ordering, carrier diversity, and WAN resilience. You will govern designs, testing, and lifecycle activities from inception to decommissioning, interfacing with carriers, MSPs, and cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural alignment, and report to the Senior Manager, Network Engineering. Local candidates in the US are preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in transport engineering, telecommunications, carrier connectivity, WAN services, or circuit lifecycle management.
• Deep experience with circuit technologies such as DIA, MPLS, Ethernet, broadband, wavelength services, cross-connects, cloud on-ramps, and private connectivity.
• Strong understanding of carrier ordering processes, service delivery milestones, LOA/CFA workflows, demarcation coordination, circuit acceptance, and provider escalation models.
• Expertise in designing resilient transport solutions using diverse carriers, diverse physical paths, redundant access models, and validated failover requirements.
• Experience developing engineering standards, implementation templates, test plans, acceptance criteria, operational runbooks, and lifecycle management processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead global transport engineering strategy, standards, and architecture for enterprise WAN, internet, cloud, and inter-site connectivity.
• Own standards for circuit ordering, carrier selection, bandwidth sizing, service types, demarcation requirements, and handoff expectations.
• Define and enforce carrier diversity, last-mile diversity, POP diversity, path diversity, and redundancy requirements for critical sites and services.
• Develop transport testing standards, including circuit acceptance testing, failover validation, redundancy testing, performance baselining, and resiliency checks.
• Provide technical oversight for circuit lifecycle management from requirements through turn-up, support, and decommissioning.
• Partner with carriers, MSPs, sourcing, facilities, security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable global connectivity.

Skills

Transport engineering

Carrier connectivity

WAN services

Circuit lifecycle management

Engineering standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Job description

MKS Inc. invites a Principal Network Engineer to lead global transport engineering, setting standards for circuit ordering, carrier diversity, and WAN resilience. You will govern designs, testing, and lifecycle activities from inception to decommissioning, interfacing with carriers, MSPs, and cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural alignment, and report to the Senior Manager, Network Engineering. Local candidates in the US are preferred.