Senior Network Architect: SD-WAN Migrations & Live Cutovers

Insight Global; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Network Architect to lead the integration of acquired networks into the parent organization's Cisco SD-WAN environment with travel to live sites required.

Responsibilities include discovery, target-state design, migration planning, automation, field-team coordination and on-site cutovers, ensuring security and network hardening in partnership with architects. Travel to multiple sites will be necessary.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of network engineering experience.
• Design/architecture ownership for live network migrations.
• Deep Cisco IOS and IOS-XE experience.
• Strong BGP and OSPF knowledge.
• 802.1X and Cisco ISE experience.
• Python and/or Ansible automation.
• Experience directing field engineers/technicians.
• Hands-on Cisco configuration and production cutover capabilities.
• Ability and willingness to travel for site migrations and cutovers.
• Ability to support night/weekend cutovers.

Responsibilities

• Own the network domain end to end for acquired-company integrations.
• Assess acquired network environments including circuits, carriers, sites, firewalls, wireless, WAN, and IP address space.
• Design target-state networking aligned with the parent company’s Cisco SD-WAN standards.
• Identify and resolve overlapping IP address spaces between acquired and parent environments.
• Design segmentation and network hardening in partnership with security architects.
• Develop site-by-site migration and cutover plans accounting for carriers, circuits, hardware lead times, applications, and voice dependencies.
• Migrate environments away from inherited Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Meraki technologies where applicable.
• Establish Azure network connectivity as workloads transition.
• Perform hands-on Cisco configuration, staging, troubleshooting, and cutover work.
• Direct on-site engineers and field technicians during migration events.
• Define rollback and go/no-go criteria and coordinate production cutovers across sites.

Skills

Network engineering

Architecture ownership

Cisco IOS

IOS-XE

BGP

OSPF

802.1X

Cisco ISE

Python automation

Field team leadership

Production cutovers

Travel readiness

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Network Architect to lead the integration of acquired networks into the parent organization's Cisco SD-WAN environment with travel to live sites required.

Responsibilities include discovery, target-state design, migration planning, automation, field-team coordination and on-site cutovers, ensuring security and network hardening in partnership with architects. Travel to multiple sites will be necessary.