Lead Network Infrastructure Architect

Key Responsibilities * Architecture Assessment: Assess the current-state environment alongside corporate architecture standards, design patterns, constraints, and infrastructure dependencies. * Requirements Gathering: Engage with regional operations, joint venture partners, security teams, management consultants, and manufacturing application stakeholders to capture and validate complex requirements. * Coexistence & Isolation Design: Design architecture solutions that address the coexistence of joint venture and corporate-only entities, explicitly defining permitted and prohibited connectivity paths. * Full-Stack Infrastructure Integration: Evaluate and document architecture considerations spanning LAN, wireless, firewalls, load balancing, extranet connectivity, macro/micro-segmentation boundaries, Red Hat compute platforms, and NetApp storage dependencies. * Governance & Documentation: Participate in formal architecture reviews, update documentation based on feedback, and maintain records of assumptions, risks, decisions, and implementation dependencies. * International Coordination: Coordinate and share information with European resources and cross-functional teams supporting local deployment activities. Qualifications * Senior-level network architecture expertise within large enterprise and manufacturing environments. * Proven track record navigating joint venture separations, divestitures, extranets, or highly complex network isolation scenarios. * Experience working with European regional operations and international stakeholders is highly valued. Technical Skills * Cisco & LAN Architecture: Expert knowledge of Cisco switching, enterprise LAN architecture, Cisco SDA fabric architecture, and advanced network segmentation principles. * Network Edge & Security: Strong architecture experience utilizing Palo Alto firewalls and F5 load balancers. * Platform Dependencies: Ability to integrate Red Hat compute platforms and NetApp storage environments into the overarching network fabric. Professional Attributes * Global Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a remote capacity across multiple time zones and travel internationally when approved. * Communication & Facilitation: Exceptional stakeholder facilitation, technical diagramming, and executive-level communication skills. Key Responsibilities * Architecture Assessment: Assess the current-state environment alongside corporate architecture standards, design patterns, constraints, and infrastructure dependencies. * Requirements Gathering: Engage with regional operations, joint venture partners, security teams, management consultants, and manufacturing application stakeholders to capture and validate complex requirements. * Coexistence & Isolation Design: Design architecture solutions that address the coexistence of joint venture and corporate-only entities, explicitly defining permitted and prohibited connectivity paths. * Full-Stack Infrastructure Integration: Evaluate and document architecture considerations spanning LAN, wireless, firewalls, load balancing, extranet connectivity, macro/micro-segmentation boundaries, Red Hat compute platforms, and NetApp storage dependencies. * Governance & Documentation: Participate in formal architecture reviews, update documentation based on feedback, and maintain records of assumptions, risks, decisions, and implementation dependencies. * International Coordination: Coordinate and share information with European resources and cross-functional teams supporting local deployment activities. Qualifications * Senior-level network architecture expertise within large enterprise and manufacturing environments. * Proven track record navigating joint venture separations, divestitures, extranets, or highly complex network isolation scenarios. * Experience working with European regional operations and international stakeholders is highly valued. Technical Skills * Cisco & LAN Architecture: Expert knowledge of Cisco switching, enterprise LAN architecture, Cisco SDA fabric architecture, and advanced network segmentation principles. * Network Edge & Security: Strong architecture experience utilizing Palo Alto firewalls and F5 load balancers. * Platform Dependencies: Ability to integrate Red Hat compute platforms and NetApp storage environments into the overarching network fabric. Professional Attributes * Global Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a remote capacity across multiple time zones and travel internationally when approved. * Communication & Facilitation: Exceptional stakeholder facilitation, technical diagramming, and executive-level communication skills.

• Senior-level network architecture expertise within large enterprise and manufacturing environments.
• Proven track record navigating joint venture separations, divestitures, extranets, or highly complex network isolation scenarios.
• Experience working with European regional operations and international stakeholders is highly valued.

Technical Skills

• Cisco & LAN Architecture: Expert knowledge of Cisco switching, enterprise LAN architecture, Cisco SDA fabric architecture, and advanced network segmentation principles.
• Network Edge & Security: Strong architecture experience utilizing Palo Alto firewalls and F5 load balancers.
• Platform Dependencies: Ability to integrate Red Hat compute platforms and NetApp storage environments into the overarching network fabric.

Professional Attributes

• Global Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a remote capacity across multiple time zones and travel internationally when approved.
• Communication & Facilitation: Exceptional stakeholder facilitation, technical diagramming, and executive-level communication skills.