Principal Network Architect

$150,000 - $190,000/Yr

Procter & Gamble - Covington, KY

Full-time - Senior

Covington, KY

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The Principal Network Architect at Procter & Gamble is a key role focused on designing and implementing innovative network solutions that enhance the company's global enterprise network. This position requires a high level of expertise in wireless technologies, LAN, SDWAN, and network security, aimed at driving transformation and supporting business opportunities. The architect will lead the creation of network infrastructure designs, manage lifecycle processes, and serve as a subject matter expert for critical incidents, ensuring the delivery of reliable and scalable network solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect repeatable, reliable, and scalable solutions with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• Lead creation of network infrastructure designs, configurations, standards and documentation to effectively deliver network solutions.
• Lead lifecycle management process to ensure clearly defined roadmaps for new technology solutions ensuring seamless transformation and adoption by the business.
• Define and document technical requirements for new capabilities, working with key suppliers to solution, build and lab certify ensuring compliance with all functional, operational and business objectives.
• Develop proposals and communicate outcomes that address business value/risk and gain leadership approval.
• Partner with peer IT organizations helping to influence, guide and direct technical outcomes, ensuring mutual strategy alignment.
• Serve as the SME for critical and/or chronic incidents, provide subject matter leadership to Operations, helping to restore service.
• Engage in the definition and generation of new tools and automation capabilities, driving software defined capabilities that improve outcomes, minimizing risk, and promote agility.
• Deliver training and technical leadership to all key partner organizations ensuring successful knowledge transfer.
• Act a Lead/Contributor on key network projects, representing the organization and working closely with Project Managers, Operations, Business Units, Suppliers, Peer Organizations and IT partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical/IT field, OR 10+ years relevant network experience.
• 9+ years experience designing and implementing networks, working across a wide range of telecommunication technologies.
• Expertise in architecting solutions for wireless, routing & switching, SDWAN, and LAN.
• Knowledge of networking infrastructure suppliers and services - Cisco, Viptela, F5 Networks, HP, Zscaler, Palo Alto.
• Proficiency in network features and protocols including: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 802.1x PEAP/EAP-TLS, RADICoA, Wireless RF, spanning tree, TCP/IP/V4/V6, SIP, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, MLS, HSRP, GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, Multicast, IPSEC, RADITACACS+, SNMP, NTP, and HTTP.
• Knowledge of Carrier Services including WAN Circuits, MPLS, VPNS, VRFs, DWDM, Frame Relay, Point to Point, OCx, DS3, E/T1s.

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications - CCDA, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, SUSE, JNCIE, JNCIA, JNCP, ACE.
• Experience with Cisco ACS/ISE, Ansible, CA Spectrum /eHealth, EMC Smarts, Cisco Prime, Solarwinds, InfoBlox, ServiceNow, Wireshark, and Splunk.
• Expertise within Cisco IOS/NXOS, Linux, Unix, Code writing, and Microsoft OS.
• Familiarity with IT governance standards and compliance.
• Experience in standard load balancer design, SSL termination, and overall application/solution design (L4-7).

Benefits

• Salary range of $150,000 - $190,000 per year.
• Bonus opportunities based on performance.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.