[Hiring] Senior Network Architect @Rackspace Technology

Role Description

Responsible for the strategic architecture, design, and technical direction of Rackspace's global data center and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure, with a primary focus on healthcare customer environments. Serves as the senior technical authority for data center fabric and WAN transport, including the high-bandwidth, low-latency network underlay required to support high-performance compute (HPC) and other data-intensive workloads. Translates healthcare business, clinical, and regulatory requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure network architectures. Acts as a liaison with vendors and third-party providers and partners closely with engineering, security, and customer teams to guide the network's strategic direction across highly available, compliance-driven healthcare infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Recognized as an expert within the company.
• In-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline.
• Broad knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function.
• Solves unique, high-impact problems affecting multiple teams, products, or customers.
• Contributes to the development of organizational sub-function strategy.
• Works independently, with guidance sought only in complex or novel situations.

Requirements

• Owns end-to-end architecture of the global data center fabric.
• Architects and evolves the enterprise WAN.
• Defines routing and control-plane architecture across BGP, OSPF, and EVPN.
• Architects and maintains Cisco ACI fabric environments.
• Designs, configures, and troubleshoots Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
• Leads capacity planning and lifecycle strategy for data center and WAN infrastructure.
• Coordinates incident communication and downtime procedures.
• Develops automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends emerging technologies.
• Creates and maintains architecture documentation, low-level and high-level design artifacts.
• Mentors and provides technical guidance to network engineers and architects.
• Ensures data center and WAN designs align with HIPAA, HITRUST, and other healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Supports high-availability architecture for mission-critical healthcare environments.
• Participates in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.

Benefits

• Compensation range from $165,830.00/year to $243,141.80/year based on geographic market.
• Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives.
• Equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Education

• High School Diploma or regional equivalent required.
• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in a related field.

Certifications

• CCNP or higher required; CCIE strongly preferred.
• Data center or cloud networking certifications a plus.
• Healthcare compliance certifications a plus.

Experience

• 15+ years of progressive network engineering/architecture experience required.
• Demonstrated experience architecting network infrastructure for health systems.

Physical Demands

• General office environment.
• May require long periods sitting and viewing a computer monitor.
• Moderate levels of stress may occur at times.
• Must be able to work a flexible work schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Travel

• Occasional domestic/international travel, less than 25%.