Data Center Network Architect (Cisco Nexus)

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States; onsite five days per week with no remote work

Salary: $90,000–$120,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America.

What you will do

• Design and support secure, resilient, highly available enterprise network architecture across data centers, physical offices, and cloud environments.
• Build and maintain spine-leaf data center networks using VXLAN/EVPN and Cisco Nexus.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and tune BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, SD-WAN, enterprise switching, wireless, and Cisco Meraki environments.
• Support networking in GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure and plan for capacity, resiliency, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Automate network operations and infrastructure provisioning using Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production networks, resolve incidents, analyze performance, and conduct root cause analysis.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, and supporting modern data center networks based on spine-leaf topology, VXLAN/EVPN, and Cisco Nexus.
• Experience with BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, and enterprise networking.
• Experience with distributed and cloud-managed network solutions, including SD-WAN, enterprise switching, wireless, and Cisco Meraki.
• Experience with GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure networking.
• Experience planning for high availability, resiliency, capacity, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with virtualization, containers, load balancing, firewalls, DDoS protection, and enterprise security practices.
• Experience with network automation and Infrastructure as Code using Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience with SolarWinds, Grafana, Prometheus, Wireshark, or similar monitoring and network analysis tools.
• Cisco certification such as CCNP or CCIE.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct-hire W2 employment only; no C2C with third parties.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, spending account, life insurance, voluntary plan, and 401(k) benefits.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.

Hiring process

• For immediate consideration, connect with the recruiter on LinkedIn and email a resume, work authorization status, current location, availability, and W2 compensation expectations.
• Include the exact job title and job location in the email.