Senior Network Architect — Global Cloud & Security

CAA Club Group; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision insurance

401K plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Nashville is seeking a Senior Network Architect to define and own the enterprise network strategy spanning global offices, data centers, and cloud environments.

You will set target-state routing, security standards, and reference architectures, mentor engineers, and drive complex projects from concept through delivery in a fast-moving environment.

Hybrid role with a discretionary bonus; compensation range for Nashville is $188,000–$207,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of network engineering in enterprise or service-provider environments.
• Deep design-level knowledge of routing and switching protocols (BGP/OSPF/EIGRP) and Cisco platforms.
• Experience with network security, firewalls, and segmentation.
• Comfort with GenAI tools for configuration validation and testing.
• SD-WAN and cloud networking in AWS/Azure.
• Strong monitoring, packet analysis and performance troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the target-state architecture for enterprise LAN, WAN, and wireless networks across global offices/data centers.
• Partner with Security and lead firewall design/configuration (Palo Alto/Cisco).
• Architect SD-WAN, VPN, and cloud connectivity (AWS/Azure).
• Lead AI-driven network assurance initiatives.
• Design standards for routing/switching (BGP/OSPF/EIGRP; Cisco).
• Define network security architecture, NAC, segmentation, zero-trust principles.
• Set standards for health, capacity planning, performance; root-cause analysis.
• Lead architecture for infra projects including office migrations and refreshes.
• Develop reference architectures, design standards, diagrams, docs.
• Define automation strategy using Python/Ansible/Terraform.
• Mentor engineers; act as tier-3 escalation; participate in on-call.

Skills

BGP/OSPF/EIGRP

Cisco (Catalyst/Meraki)

Palo Alto Firewall

SD-WAN

Cloud networking (AWS/Azure)

Python/Ansible/Terraform

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT or related field

Tools

Palo Alto

Cisco ASA/Cat/Meraki

Job description

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Nashville is seeking a Senior Network Architect to define and own the enterprise network strategy spanning global offices, data centers, and cloud environments.

You will set target-state routing, security standards, and reference architectures, mentor engineers, and drive complex projects from concept through delivery in a fast-moving environment.

Hybrid role with a discretionary bonus; compensation range for Nashville is $188,000–$207,000 annually.