Senior Network Architect - AVP (Hybrid)

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k)

Life insurance

Paid leave

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays in Whippany, NJ is seeking a Senior Network Engineer AVP to design, build, and run Barclays’ global network platforms across data centers, campuses, branches, and edge environments. You will drive automation, DevOps practices, and product-centric delivery to improve scalability, security, and speed.

The role requires extensive experience in BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, data center architectures (VXLAN/EVPN, spine/leaf, ACI), and enterprise connectivity to AWS/Azure.

Qualifications

• Deep practical project delivery experience across enterprise grade networks (BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, multicast, QoS, MPLS).
• Experience designing and operating modern data center environments (spine/leaf, VXLAN/EVPN, DCI, ACI, DWDM).
• Extensive experience with Cisco, Arista, Fortinet and F5 platforms.
• Designing and operating enterprise Wi-Fi and SD-WAN solutions.
• Delivering large-scale data networks across LAN/MAN/WAN, data center, wireless, extranet and branch environments.
• Understanding resiliency, traffic engineering, redundancy models, segmentation, firewall integration, and traffic optimization.
• Experience with AI-driven automation and Python scripting.
• Ability to assess and improve platform availability.
• Automation using Cisco NSO, Ansible, and/or Python for scalable, repeatable deployments.
• Experience connecting enterprise connectivity to AWS and/or Azure (hybrid architectures).

Responsibilities

• Build, deliver, and maintain infrastructure solutions with reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.
• Monitor IT infrastructure to identify issues, vulnerabilities, or outages and drive down MTTR.
• Develop automated tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Implement secure configurations to protect infrastructure from cyber threats.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers to define IT infrastructure requirements.
• Stay informed of industry trends and contribute to technology communities.

Skills

BGP/OSPF/EIGRP

Multicast

QoS

MPLS

Private circuits

Metro Ethernet

Network segmentation

VXLAN/EVPN

DCI/ACI/DWDM

WiFi networks

SD-WAN

AI-driven automation

Python scripting

Network automation

AWS/Azure connectivity

DevOps practices

Tools

Cisco

Arista

Fortinet

F5

Cisco NSO

Ansible

Python

Job description

Barclays in Whippany, NJ is seeking a Senior Network Engineer AVP to design, build, and run Barclays’ global network platforms across data centers, campuses, branches, and edge environments. You will drive automation, DevOps practices, and product-centric delivery to improve scalability, security, and speed.

The role requires extensive experience in BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, data center architectures (VXLAN/EVPN, spine/leaf, ACI), and enterprise connectivity to AWS/Azure.