Senior Network Architect: DMZ & Cloud Connectivity

Matlen Silver; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Senior Network Architect to design and implement secure, highly available enterprise DMZ/perimeter networks and cloud networking across on‑prem and public clouds.

You will work with network, security, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to craft scalable connectivity patterns, reference designs, and architecture documentation while ensuring HA, DR, and secure external access.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise network engineering/architecture experience.
• Hands-on DMZ/perimeter network architecture experience.
• Experience designing internet-facing and externally accessible networks.
• Knowledge of segmentation, routing, NAT, VPN, DNS, load balancing, and traffic flows.
• Experience with enterprise firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/FTD, Fortinet or equivalent).
• Hybrid connectivity between data centers/on-prem and public cloud.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Cloud networking concepts: VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, peering, private connectivity, cloud firewalls.
• DesignsHigher-Level and Low-Level designs, network diagrams, and architecture docs.
• Strong HA, resiliency, DR, and secure network design; strong cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise DMZ and perimeter network architecture.
• Develop secure connectivity patterns between on-premises, DMZ, and public cloud.
• Design network segmentation and traffic flows across zones.
• Support cloud adoption with secure public cloud connectivity.
• Develop architecture standards, reference designs, HLDs/LLDs, diagrams, and implementation strategies.
• Partner with security teams on firewall, WAF, IDS/IPS, DDoS protection, and traffic inspection.
• Evaluate existing network architectures and recommend improvements for scalability, resiliency, security, and performance.

Skills

DMZ/perimeter network

Enterprise network architecture

Cloud networking

Network segmentation

Firewall design

Hybrid cloud connectivity

HA/DR design

Cross‑functional collaboration

Tools

Arista EOS

CloudVision

EVPN-VXLAN

Terraform

Ansible

F5 BIG-IP

Job description

Matlen Silver in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Senior Network Architect to design and implement secure, highly available enterprise DMZ/perimeter networks and cloud networking across on‑prem and public clouds.

You will work with network, security, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to craft scalable connectivity patterns, reference designs, and architecture documentation while ensuring HA, DR, and secure external access.