Senior HPC Backbone & Peering Architect

NorthMark Strategies; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend (GrubHub)

Employer-paid medical, dental, vision

16 weeks paid parental leave

Life insurance & disability

401(k) matching 100% up to 6%

Optional PPO, HSA, FSA benefits

25 days Paid Time Off + 12 holidays

Job summary

NorthMark Strategies LLC is seeking an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design and reference architecture of our HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, and cloud interconnects. You will define standards, ensure security, scalability, and observability across multi-tenant environments.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in large-scale data center networking, expertise in leaf-spine and EVPN/VXLAN, and a track record of delivering reliable, high-performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, EE, or equivalent.
• Expertise in data center fabrics (leaf-spine, Clos) and EVPN/VXLAN.
• Experience with HPC workloads and high-bandwidth, low-latency requirements.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Data center networking

Leaf-spine architecture

EVPN VXLAN

WAN peering & interconnects

HPC workloads

Technical documentation

Leadership & project management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/EE

Job description

NorthMark Strategies LLC is seeking an experienced Backbone & Peering Network Architect to own the design and reference architecture of our HPC data center backbone, WAN connectivity, and cloud interconnects. You will define standards, ensure security, scalability, and observability across multi-tenant environments.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in large-scale data center networking, expertise in leaf-spine and EVPN/VXLAN, and a track record of delivering reliable, high-performance