Senior IT Network & Cloud Architecture Lead

Eaton Group; Moon Township (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 146,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton's Corporate Sector division is seeking an IT Architect - Network to lead enterprise network and security architecture across campus, data center, cloud connectivity, and interconnection platforms.

You will define target-state architectures, roadmaps, governance practices, and reference designs while partnering with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to advance automated, AI-enabled network operations. Strong leadership and communication required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years of experience 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.
• Must reside within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH; Galesburg, MI; Houston, TX; Menomonee Falls, WI; Moon Township, PA; or Raleigh, NC.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

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

Network security

Private LTE/5G

IaC

AIOps

Observability

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Equinix

Azure

OCI

Cisco

Palo Alto

Check Point

Fortinet

Zscaler

Azure/Azure Cloud

Job description

Eaton's Corporate Sector division is seeking an IT Architect - Network to lead enterprise network and security architecture across campus, data center, cloud connectivity, and interconnection platforms.

You will define target-state architectures, roadmaps, governance practices, and reference designs while partnering with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to advance automated, AI-enabled network operations. Strong leadership and communication required.