About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Platform Architect, Network based in India.
This is a senior technical architecture role focused on designing, modernizing, and operating secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise networking platforms. The position is fully remote in India.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior technical authority and highest point of escalation across enterprise networking, cloud, and security environments
- Develop a deep understanding of customer technology landscapes and provide expert guidance on architecture, optimization, and modernization
- Design and validate failover and failback strategies covering DNS, virtualization, cloud, security, routing convergence, IP remapping
- Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery strategies, procedures, configurations, and runbooks
- Provide expert resolution and hands-on technical support for complex incidents and root-cause analysis
- Create, review, and maintain high-level and low-level designs, architecture diagrams, technical standards, and documentation
- Plan and lead proofs of concept (POCs)
- Collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, operations, service management, security, Sales, and customer-facing teams
- Use automation and approved AI tools responsibly
- Own technology lifecycle activities including version validation, patching, upgrades, technology refreshes, decommissioning
- Deliver technical training, presentations, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Maintain compliance with information security, data protection, privacy, governance, and business policies
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of professional IT experience
- Advanced hands-on expertise in network architecture, enterprise/data-center networking, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, load balancing, IDS/IPS, high availability
- Strong experience designing and troubleshooting disaster-recovery networking, network isolation, clean-room architectures
- Practical experience with Cisco ACI, CATO, Fortinet, VMware NSX, virtualization, storage/replication connectivity
- Advanced knowledge of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, BFD, multicast, PBR, MPLS, VRFs, L2VPN, VLANs, VXLAN, STP/RSTP/MST, vPC/VDC, HSRP/VRRP/GLBP, LACP, QoS
- Strong cloud architecture expertise across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation, including Terraform, AWS CLI, and Azure CLI
- Observability platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog
- Knowledge of Zero Trust, SASE, network segmentation, cyber recovery, EDR/XDR, WAF, CDN, DNS
- Backup/replication solutions such as Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, and Carbonite
- Ability to use approved AI tools responsibly