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Principal Architect - Data Center (US)

EOS IT Solutions · New York, NY · Yesterday
Art & Creative$170k–$200k/yrFull-time

EOS IT Solutions is a Global Technology and Logistics company, providing Collaboration and Business IT Support services to some of the world’s largest industry leaders, delivering forward-thinking solutions based on multi-domain architecture. Customer satisfaction and commitment to superior quality of service are our top business priorities, along with investing in and supporting our partners and employees. We are a true International IT provider and are proud to deliver our services through global simplicity with trusted transparency.

About the role

This position is hybrid in: NY, NY; Pennington, NJ; Jersey City, NJ.

We are seeking a Principal Architect to define and lead next-generation data center architecture spanning physical and logical design, software-defined infrastructure, virtualization, and containerization. This role drives the strategy for workload, management, and control zones across regions and availability zones while enabling placement of core and foundation services.

Responsibilities

  • Define target-state data center architecture with regional/AZ constructs.
  • Establish workload, management, and control zone strategy.
  • Lead design of next-generation fabrics (leaf-spine, EVPN/VXLAN).
  • Align internal and external network designs for consistent policy.
  • Develop VCF networking standards: VPC constructs, Distributed Transit Gateway, Distributed Firewall, Load Balancing.
  • Integrate virtualization, SDS, and Kubernetes/Tanzu platforms.
  • Drive software-defined infrastructure adoption and automation.
  • Oversee architecture governance, design reviews, and roadmap execution.

Requirements

  • 10+ years data center/platform architecture.
  • Expertise with VCF (vSphere, NSX, vSAN) and NSX networking.
  • Strong background in fabric architecture (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP).
  • Experience with Kubernetes/Tanzu and container networking.
  • IaC, GitOps, automation, and observability expertise.

Qualifications

  • Certifications: VCIX/VCAP, NSX, CCNP/CCIE DC, CKA/CKS (desirable).
  • Multi-region architecture and workload placement experience (desirable).
  • Knowledge of SDS, storage, backup/DR, and cyber-resilience (desirable).

Pay

Pay Range $170,000—$200,000 USD

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