Role Summary:

A Network Architect is responsible for designing and governing network architecture that supports business services. This includes translating requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient designs, and making informed trade-off decisions across cost, risk, and performance.

Core Responsibilities:

Architecture and Design:

- Design enterprise network architecture across data center, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments
- Define standards, patterns, and reference architectures
- Ensure scalability, resiliency, and security by design

Trade-off and Decision Making:

- Balance performance, cost, risk, and operability
- Evaluate competing approaches (e.g., overlay vs underlay, vendor vs open solutions)
- Make design decisions at the system level rather than the device level

Vendor and Technology Neutrality:

- Evaluate technologies across multiple vendors (e.g., Cisco, VMware, Juniper) and open-source
- Avoid designing around a single vendor's constraints or bias
- Select solutions based on best architectural fit

Complex Programme Delivery:

- Lead architecture across large, multi-domain programmes
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams
- Own end-to-end design coherence rather than isolated components

Stakeholder Management:





- Align stakeholders across security, operations, business, and vendors
- Manage conflicting requirements such as security vs usability, cost vs resiliency, and speed vs governance

Governance and Standards:

- Define and enforce network standards
- Review designs to ensure alignment with architectural principles

Required Skills:

Technical:

- Routing and protocols: BGP (mandatory), OSPF, TCP/IP
- Data center networking and fabric design
- Network security principles (e.g., segmentation, access control)
- Software-defined networking (e.g., NSX)
- VXLAN and overlay networking
- Hybrid cloud networking
- Network automation (e.g., Python, APIs)
- Solid Linux and networking integration
- Experience with containers and infrastructure tooling

Experience:

- Proven delivery of complex, enterprise-scale projects
- Experience with high availability and disaster recovery designs, multi-region and data center interconnects, and secure access models

Soft Skills:

- Strong ability to articulate trade-offs
- Confidence in constructively challenging stakeholders
- Clear communication across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to drive decisions

📌 Getronics - Network Architect (India)
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📍 India