Network Architect

About the role

The Network Architect is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing and evolving Fervo's network architecture across corporate IT, hybrid cloud, and site environments. This role is the subject-matter expert for the Fortinet Security Fabric, with deep ownership of FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiNAC, and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.

Responsibilities

• Design the target-state architecture for enterprise, cloud, WAN and SD-WAN, wireless, and site connectivity, balancing reliability, security, maintainability, scalability, and cost

• Own architectural standards and lifecycle strategy for the Fortinet Security Fabric, including high availability, capacity, firmware, licensing, and platform roadmaps

• Define secure integration patterns between Fortinet-based IT networks and Cisco-based OT environments, including routing, segmentation, access control, and resilient interconnects

• Evaluate design options and clearly communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, and risk to engineers, business leaders, and executives

• Develop and execute a roadmap to move network provisioning and change management toward version-controlled, automated delivery through CI/CD

• Establish reusable templates and automation using FortiManager, APIs, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools

• Partner with the Hybrid Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable connectivity across cloud and on-premise environments

• Remain hands-on with configuration, deployment, commissioning, upgrades, and troubleshooting of Fortinet and Cisco network infrastructure

• Lead network design and delivery for new site builds, plant commissioning, expansions, and infrastructure refreshes

• Guide routing and switching, BGP and OSPF, SD-WAN, VPN, QoS, wireless, network segmentation, and high-availability design

• Coordinate with managed service providers, vendors, Fortinet support, and Cisco partners to maintain service quality and drive issues to resolution

• Enable security, governance, and team development by designing and enforcing firewall policy, network access control, segmentation, secure remote access, and logging standards in partnership with cybersecurity

• Support incident response, risk assessments, audits, and remediation by providing network telemetry, evidence, and technical leadership

• Review network designs and changes, mentor engineers and contractors, and raise the team's ability to reason through design decisions rather than only execute configurations

• Create runbooks and operational standards that make the environment easier to support and reduce dependence on individual knowledge

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 8+ years of experience in network engineering or infrastructure operations, including meaningful responsibility for architecture, standards, or complex design decisions

• Deep, recent hands-on experience across the Fortinet Security Fabric, particularly FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiNAC, and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

• Advanced knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs and VRFs, IPsec and SSL VPN, QoS, high availability, and network segmentation

• Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud networking in Azure or AWS

• Experience with network automation, CI/CD, scripting, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform

• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills in complex, uptime-critical environments

• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain architecture decisions and recommendations to executive stakeholders