Senior Lead Network Architect (AI)

Location: Remote, United States. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents/Green Card holders.

Base salary: $129,639–$170,137 annually, depending on location.

Company

hirify.global provides secure, high-performance fiber connectivity and network infrastructure for cloud, edge, AI, enterprise, government, and community workloads.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and evolution of resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks.
• Develop architecture standards and roadmaps for routing, switching, MPLS, multicast, carrier Ethernet, merchant-silicon platforms, optics, and high-speed interfaces.
• Design network automation with model-driven interfaces, open APIs, infrastructure as code, reusable service models, and automated testing.
• Build streaming telemetry and observability solutions for network health, performance, capacity, service assurance, and compliance.
• Develop event-driven and closed-loop workflows for provisioning, validation, anomaly response, and remediation, including AI-enabled detection, forecasting, incident correlation, and root-cause analysis.
• Lead proof-of-concepts, platform evaluations, architecture decisions, and technical leadership across IP, optical/transport, operations, security, data, and software engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of architecture and engineering experience in large-scale carrier, web-scale, or service-provider networks.
• Deep expertise in IGP, BGP, MPLS, multicast, VPN, and traffic engineering, including IS-IS, OSPF, Segment Routing, MP-BGP, RSVP-TE, LDP, PIM, IGMP, M-LDP, Layer 3 VPNs, VPLS, and EVPN.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale routing infrastructures, including IGP domains exceeding 1,000 nodes and multi-tier route-reflection architectures.
• Strong knowledge of routing and switching platforms, merchant silicon, optics, SERDES, and MPLS forwarding and control-plane mechanisms.
• Experience with carrier-grade Metro Ethernet technologies and standards, including IEEE 802.3, OAM, QinQ, MEF service profiles, and MPLS-based scaling.
• Hands-on production experience with network automation and telemetry using Python, Ansible, NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, gNMI, gRPC, APIs, event-driven workflows, and automated testing.
• Strong communication, influence, and negotiation skills, including experience supporting major capital decisions and multi-year vendor agreements.

Nice to have

• CCIE and/or JNCIE certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in the United States.
• Health, life, voluntary lifestyle, and other wellbeing benefits.
• Short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and/or sales compensation may be discussed during the selection process.
• High-accountability environment with clear expectations, shared accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Employment is subject to a background screening that may include criminal-record, motor-vehicle, or drug checks depending on the position.