Senior Lead Network Architect: AI-Driven Core & Automation

Lumen; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is a trusted network for the AI‑powered world, enabling secure, high‑performance connectivity for enterprises, governments, and communities. We design and operate resilient networks across Internet, MPLS core, VPN edges, and Metro Ethernet, with automation and AI‑driven observability.

You will take ownership of architecture and guide cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports AI workloads and evolving customer needs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of architecture and engineering experience in large‑scale carrier, web‑scale, or service‑provider networks.
• Deep expertise in IGP, BGP, MPLS, multicast, VPN, and traffic‑engineering technologies, including IS‑IS, OSPF, Segment Routing, MP‑BGP, RSVP‑TE, LDP, PIM, IGMP, M‑LDP, Layer 3 VPNs, VPLS, and EVPN.
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting large‑scale routing infrastructures, including IGP domains exceeding 1,000 nodes and multi‑tier route‑reflection architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with production network automation and telemetry using Python, Ansible, NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, gNMI, gRPC, APIs, event‑driven workflows, automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks.
• Develop architecture standards and roadmaps for routing, switching, MPLS, multicast, carrier Ethernet, merchant-silicon platforms, optics, and high‑speed interfaces.
• Design and govern network automation using model‑driven interfaces, open APIs, infrastructure as code, reusable service models, automated testing.
• Design and develop streaming telemetry and observability solutions for network health, performance, capacity, service‑level assurance, and compliance.
• Design and develop event‑driven and closed‑loop workflows for provisioning, validation, anomaly response, and remediation.
• Evaluate and apply AI‑enabled capabilities for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, capacity forecasting, incident correlation, root‑cause analysis, and guided operations.
• Lead proof‑of‑concepts, technical and economic evaluations, platform selection, and cross‑functional architecture decisions.
• Provide technical leadership across IP, Optical/Transport, operations, security, data, and software engineering teams.

Skills

IGP

BGP

MPLS

multicast

VPN

IS-IS

OSPF

Segment Routing

MP-BGP

RSVP-TE

LDP

PIM

IGMP

M-LDP

Layer 3 VPNs

VPLS

EVPN

Python

Ansible

NETCONF/YANG

RESTCONF

gNMI

gRPC

APIs

automation

telemetry

model-driven interfaces

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline

CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications

Tools

Python

Ansible

NETCONF/YANG

RESTCONF

gNMI

gRPC

APIs

infrastructure as code

Job description

Lumen is a trusted network for the AI‑powered world, enabling secure, high‑performance connectivity for enterprises, governments, and communities. We design and operate resilient networks across Internet, MPLS core, VPN edges, and Metro Ethernet, with automation and AI‑driven observability.

You will take ownership of architecture and guide cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports AI workloads and evolving customer needs.