Senior Global WAN & Cloud Networking Architect

EY; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 139,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Network Engineer within Global Connectivity Solutions (GCS) to architect, implement, and optimize global WAN and cloud connectivity. You’ll lead complex migrations, configure BGP/OSPF, SD-WAN, VPNs, and DDoS mitigation, partnering with security, cloud, and vendor teams to improve resilience and performance.

You will design end-to-end solutions, develop standards, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and IaC practices across global networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or related field.
• Minimum 12 years of progressive enterprise networking experience including WAN, SD-WAN, Internet, VPN, and cloud connectivity.
• CCNP Enterprise or equivalent certifications are preferred; cloud networking certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership for design, migration, optimization, and lifecycle management of global WAN services.
• Design and support advanced routing, switching, QoS, and IPv4/IPv6 across enterprise networks.
• Lead SD-WAN engineering across branches, data centers, cloud environments, and SaaS platforms.
• Engineer Internet edge, peering, DDoS mitigation, capacity planning, and resilience.
• Design secure B2B connectivity using IPsec and L2TP VPNs, with partner interconnections.
• Design multi-cloud connectivity including Azure ExpressRoute, AWS, and Google Cloud integrations.
• Mentor engineers; perform design reviews and promote best engineering practices.
• Drive automation and IaC using APIs, scripting, and version control; enhance observability and analytics.

Skills

WAN architecture

Routing & switching

SD-WAN

BGP/OSPF

Network security

Automation (Python)

REST APIs

Ansible / IaC

JSON / YAML

Source control (Git)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IT/ telecom or related tech

Tools

Python

REST APIs

Ansible

JSON

YAML

Git / Source control

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Network Engineer within Global Connectivity Solutions (GCS) to architect, implement, and optimize global WAN and cloud connectivity. You’ll lead complex migrations, configure BGP/OSPF, SD-WAN, VPNs, and DDoS mitigation, partnering with security, cloud, and vendor teams to improve resilience and performance.

You will design end-to-end solutions, develop standards, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and IaC practices across global networks.