Senior Network Architect - SD-WAN & Telco Design Lead

Meriplex; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Meriplex Houston is seeking a Network Architect to lead low-level designs and implementation planning for Telco and SDWAN deployments. You will translate sold solutions into implementable designs and mentor engineers across the team.

The role emphasizes SDWAN, advanced routing, and telecommunications services, with pre-sales support, standards development, and customer-facing responsibilities. On-call and up to 15% travel within the Houston area may be required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of network engineering or network architecture experience.
• Extensive SDWAN experience — design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Expert-level knowledge of high-level routing protocols (BGP, OSPF) and complex routing designs.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand an unfamiliar customer network and produce an accurate, implementable design.
• Working knowledge of carrier and telco services — dedicated internet, broadband, LTE, and voice circuits.
• Strong documentation skills, including network diagrams (Visio or equivalent) and low-level design documents.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication; comfortable in a customer-facing role, presenting designs and implementations to customers and internal teams.
• Experience mentoring or technically leading network engineers.
• Strong independent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work in a team as well as self-directed.

Responsibilities

• Produce low-level designs and implementation plans for Telco and SDWAN deployments, including IP addressing, routing, failover, and cutover planning.
• Rapidly assess existing customer networks — topology, routing, carrier services, and equipment — and design the integration path for Meriplex Telco and SDWAN products.
• Provide pre-sales support: validate proposed solutions, contribute design input to quotes and proposals, and join customer technical conversations as needed.
• Support activations, working with the Provisioning and Support & Activations teams to execute designs cleanly.
• Act as the escalation point for complex issues raised by Support and the NOC.
• Plan and execute Telco upgrades and maintenance for existing customer environments.
• Drive product engineering: operational readiness for new products and develop and maintain the implementation standards and reusable templates used across Telco delivery.
• Mentor network engineers and junior architects through design reviews, implementation coaching, and knowledge transfer.
• Work directly with customers — presenting designs, walking through implementations, and representing Meriplex as the technical face of Telco delivery.
• Produce and maintain customer network documentation and drawings as part of proactive customer value.
• Work with Project Managers and Provisioning Coordinators as the technical lead for projects and implementations — owning the technical decisions from kickoff through closeout.
• Collaborate across the Telco organization — Network Support & Activations, the NOC, Provisioning & Carrier Services, and the PMO.

Skills

7+ years networking

SDWAN design

BGP/OSPF routing

Customer-facing

Mentoring

Documentation

Analytical troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Tools

Visio

Job description

Meriplex Houston is seeking a Network Architect to lead low-level designs and implementation planning for Telco and SDWAN deployments. You will translate sold solutions into implementable designs and mentor engineers across the team.

The role emphasizes SDWAN, advanced routing, and telecommunications services, with pre-sales support, standards development, and customer-facing responsibilities. On-call and up to 15% travel within the Houston area may be required.