Senior Network Architect & Engineer (Hybrid)

Capital One Group; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a seasoned Network Engineer 4 to lead and design end-to-end connectivity with strong security controls. This role blends hands-on engineering with architecture leadership in a hybrid work setting.

You will guide deployment automation, establish standards across vendor platforms and cloud environments, and collaborate with security teams to build resilient, scalable networks. This position emphasizes modern observability and IaC practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or 6+ years of network engineering experience.
• Experience with routing protocols and network encapsulation technologies.
• Design and maintain large-scale network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end connectivity systems with security and ops frameworks.
• Leverage deployment automation to design software-adapted config and maintenance.
• Define standards across vendor platforms, cloud environments and in-house software.
• Define patterns for protocols across campus, WAN/SD-WAN, DCs, cloud and SaaS fronted services.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish hybrid connectivity standards.
• Design network automation and observability pipelines to speed changes and improve resilience.
• Act as technical authority for incident response and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Cloud and Security to define Zero Trust segmentation and encryption standards.

Skills

Network engineering

Routing protocols

LANs / VLANs

Physical network devices

Infrastructure design

SRE principles

Observability tools

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Cloud security basics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a seasoned Network Engineer 4 to lead and design end-to-end connectivity with strong security controls. This role blends hands-on engineering with architecture leadership in a hybrid work setting.

You will guide deployment automation, establish standards across vendor platforms and cloud environments, and collaborate with security teams to build resilient, scalable networks. This position emphasizes modern observability and IaC practices.