Senior Lead Network Architect — AI-ready, Scalable Carrier Core

Lumen; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Network Architect to design resilient, scalable Internet/MPLS core networks and VPN edge services. You will drive automation, streaming telemetry, and AI-enabled operations to improve reliability and efficiency.

You will lead cross-functional teams, set architectural standards, and guide large-scale deployments across Terabit-scale infrastructure while maintaining security and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications are highly preferred.
• 10+ years of architecture/engineering experience in large-scale networks.

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, and high-speed interfaces.
• Design and govern network automation using model-driven interfaces, open APIs, infrastructure as code, and automated testing.
• Design and develop streaming telemetry and observability solutions for network health, performance, capacity, and service-level assurance.
• Design and develop event-driven workflows for provisioning, validation, anomaly response, and remediation.
• Apply AI-enabled capabilities for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, capacity forecasting, incident correlation, and guided operations.
• Lead proof-of-concepts, platform selections, 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

Traffic engineering

Network automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Math

CCIE/JNCIE certification

Tools

Python

Ansible

NETCONF/YANG

RESTCONF

gNMI

gRPC

APIs

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Network Architect to design resilient, scalable Internet/MPLS core networks and VPN edge services. You will drive automation, streaming telemetry, and AI-enabled operations to improve reliability and efficiency.

You will lead cross-functional teams, set architectural standards, and guide large-scale deployments across Terabit-scale infrastructure while maintaining security and performance.