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# System Architect

- **Company:** DriveNets Ltd.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Multi-protocol Systems, Software Architecture, RabbitMQ, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Grafana, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://drivenets.com/career/CA.B64/

## About the Role

Networking & Infrastructure

 * 6+ years designing large-scale Service Provider or hyperscale IP/MPLS networks
 * Strong understanding of:
 * BGP
 * ISIS
 * RSVP-TE
 * EVPN/VXLAN
 * Segment Routing
 * QoS architectures
 * Deep familiarity with distributed routing systems and disaggregated architectures

Automation & Cloud-Native

 * 4+ years in network automation and orchestration
 * Strong knowledge of:
 * NetConf/YANG
 * gNMI
 * REST/gRPC
 * OpenConfig
 * Hands-on Kubernetes architecture experience
 * Strong understanding of:
 * Docker
 * Helm
 * Service meshes
 * Microservices
 * Event-driven systems

Observability & Reliability- Experience with:

 * Prometheus
 * Grafana
 * OpenTelemetry
 * Kafka
 * Pulsar
 * RabbitMQ
 * Strong SRE mindset:
 * HA
 * Scalability
 * Failure domains
 * Reliability engineering
 * Operational resiliency, * Deep networking expertise
 * Cloud-native software architecture
 * Automation-first thinking
 * Operational scalability mindset
 * Strong customer-facing communication
 * Ability to translate hyperscale operational requirements into reusable platform capabilities

This architect should be capable of designing systems that automate and operationalize distributed Network Cloud clusters as a unified, intent-driven platform while enabling future DAP expansion into advanced Infrastructure and Service orchestration domains.

## Description

We are looking for a highly technical, hands-on System Architect to lead the architecture and evolution of DriveNets Automation Platform (DAP), with focus on:

Infrastructure automation Service lifecycle orchestration Multi-tenant operations Intent-based networking Closed-loop assurance Cloud-native OSS transformation This role is ideal for architects passionate about scalable automation systems, distributed cloud-native platforms, and carrier-grade operational workflows.

The Role As a DAP Infrastructure & Services Automation Architect, you will define and drive the architecture for automation frameworks enabling lifecycle management of DriveNets Network Cloud deployments at hyperscale.

You will bridge: Network infrastructure NOS internals Kubernetes-native microservices OSS/BSS integration Telemetry and analytics CI/CD operational models AI-assisted operational automation You will work closely with: DAP engineering Infrastructure teams NOS platform groups DevOps/SRE Product management Tier-1 service provider customers