Senior Network Architect & Reliability Lead

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Network Engineer 5 (Senior Manager, IC) to architect and oversee enterprise and cloud network ecosystems. You will design end-to-end connectivity with security, automation and observability, driving standards across vendor platforms, cloud environments, and in-house software.

You will mentor engineers and lead critical incident response to improve reliability. The role is hybrid with on-site expectations at designated Capital One offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or at least 8 years of experience in network engineering, including management of network systems.
• Experience with routing protocols (BGP, Link-State Protocols, and Tunneling Protocols).
• Experience with network encapsulation technologies (LANS, VLANs, overlay networks, and network fabrics).
• Experience with physical network devices and maintaining network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end connectivity systems with security and operational frameworks.
• Design deployment automation and configuration management patterns.
• Define standards across vendor platforms, cloud environments, and in-house software.
• Own architecture and lifecycle of enterprise and cloud network ecosystems (connectivity, security, automation).
• Develop design standards for routing, security segmentation, and inter-cloud traffic flow.
• Lead incident response and drive root-cause analysis for reliability improvements.
• Partner with Cloud, Security, and SRE teams for observability and self-healing automation.
• Mentor engineers on networking and automation principles.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

8+ years of experience in network engineering including management of network systems

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Network Engineer 5 (Senior Manager, IC) to architect and oversee enterprise and cloud network ecosystems. You will design end-to-end connectivity with security, automation and observability, driving standards across vendor platforms, cloud environments, and in-house software.

You will mentor engineers and lead critical incident response to improve reliability. The role is hybrid with on-site expectations at designated Capital One offices.