Senior IT Network Architect - Cloud, AI & Security

Eaton Corporation; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 146,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable incentive program

Job summary

Eaton Corporation is seeking an IT Architect - Network to lead enterprise networking, cloud networking, interconnection, and security architectures. The role defines target-state architectures, roadmaps, standards, reference designs, and governance across its global network environment, including campus, data center, WAN/SD-WAN, Azure and OCI.

The position partners with fellow architects to set future-state infrastructure strategies, focusing on architecture and governance rather than daily

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years designing enterprise network, cloud networking, private wireless, and/or network security architectures.
• Minimum 3 years in a senior architect, principal engineer, or technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal architect for enterprise networking, cloud networking, interconnection, private wireless, and network security.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, roadmaps, and engineering principles.
• Define secure, scalable, resilient network architectures supporting cloud-first and hybrid-cloud strategies.
• Establish networking frameworks for Azure and OCI, including landing zones, hub-and-spoke designs, routing, segmentation, DNS, private connectivity, and hybrid-cloud integration.
• Define interconnection architectures leveraging Equinix Fabric, Equinix Network Edge, ExpressRoute, FastConnect, cloud on-ramps, BGP, and regional hub models.
• Provide architectural direction for private LTE/5G networks supporting industrial mobility, OT/IoT connectivity, manufacturing operations, and integration with enterprise networking and security controls.
• Lead architecture initiatives for network automation and AI-enabled operations, including AIOps, observability, telemetry, Infrastructure as Code, intent-based networking, automated remediation, and cloud-native automation.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to drive governance and technology strategy.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Cloud networking

Private wireless

Network security

Azure networking

OCI networking

Equinix interconnection

AIOps

Infrastructure as Code

Governance & standards

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cisco

Palo Alto

Check Point

Fortinet

F5

Zscaler

Azure

OCI

Equinix

SD-WAN

Job description

Eaton Corporation is seeking an IT Architect - Network to lead enterprise networking, cloud networking, interconnection, and security architectures. The role defines target-state architectures, roadmaps, standards, reference designs, and governance across its global network environment, including campus, data center, WAN/SD-WAN, Azure and OCI.

The position partners with fellow architects to set future-state infrastructure strategies, focusing on architecture and governance rather than daily