Senior Network Architect & Automation Lead

Capital One

Plano (TX)

On-site

USD 209,000 - 239,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Network Engineer 5 to architect end-to-end connectivity and security frameworks, spanning campus, cloud, and inter‑cloud environments. You will drive standards, automate deployment patterns, and lead incident response to improve reliability.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Cloud, Security, and SRE teams, plus mentoring engineers in networking, reliability, and automation practices. Strong communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or at least 8 years of network engineering experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience with routing protocols (BGP, Link-State Protocols, and Tunneling Protocols).
  • At least 8 years of experience with network encapsulation technologies (LANS, Virtual LANs, overlay networks, and network fabrics).
  • At least 8 years of experience with physical network devices.
  • At least 8 years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and Design end-to-end connectivity systems with associated security and operational frameworks
  • Utilize software development practices to structure and design how upstream systems (e.g. deployment automation) will interact with running systems and build out end-state configuration frameworks that are software adapted for deploy, change, and maintenance
  • Define and drive standards needed for implementation across vendor platforms, cloud environments and in-house software
  • Define implementation patterns for all protocol frameworks needed at COF across our campus, WAN/SD-WAN, Colocation facilities, DCs cloud and SaaS fronted services
  • Own the architecture and lifecycle of enterprise and cloud network ecosystems, spanning connectivity, security, and automation layers
  • Develop and enforce design standards and best practices for routing, security segmentation, and inter-cloud traffic flow
  • Lead critical incident response efforts and ensure root-cause analysis drives durable reliability improvements
  • Partner with Cloud, Security, and SRE teams to define cross-platform observability, telemetry, and self-healing automation
  • Mentor and upskill engineers across the organization on advanced networking, reliability, and automation principles

Skills

Strong analytical and troubleshooting
Excellent communication and teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Chef
Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Network Engineer 5 to architect end-to-end connectivity and security frameworks, spanning campus, cloud, and inter‑cloud environments. You will drive standards, automate deployment patterns, and lead incident response to improve reliability.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Cloud, Security, and SRE teams, plus mentoring engineers in networking, reliability, and automation practices. Strong communication skills are essential.

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