IT Architect - Network
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Beachwood, Ohio, USA, 44122
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum 7 years of experience designing enterprise network, cloud networking, private wireless, and/or network security architectures.
- Minimum 3 years in a senior architect, principal engineer, or technical leadership role.
- Must reside within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH; Galesburg, MI; Houston, TX; Menomonee Falls, WI; Moon Township, PA; or Raleigh, NC.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Full description
Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a IT Architect - Network. The expected annual salary range for this role is $146000 - $215000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
The Architect, IT Infrastructure Network & Security serves as Eaton's senior technical authority for enterprise network, cloud networking, interconnection, private wireless, and network security architecture. This role defines target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, standards, reference designs, and governance practices across Eaton's global network environment, including campus, data center, WAN/SD-WAN, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Equinix interconnection platforms, and manufacturing connectivity.
As part of the Network & Security Architecture team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Network & Security Architecture, this position partners with fellow architects to establish future-state infrastructure strategies and advance Eaton's vision for automated, AI-enabled, predictive, and self-healing network environments. This role focuses on architecture, standards, and governance and does not own operational support, service delivery, incident management, or project execution.
Job Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the principal architect for enterprise networking, cloud networking, interconnection, private wireless, and network security.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, roadmaps, and engineering principles.
- Define secure, scalable, resilient network architectures supporting cloud-first and hybrid-cloud strategies.
- Establish networking frameworks for Azure and OCI, including landing zones, hub-and-spoke designs, routing, segmentation, DNS, private connectivity, and hybrid-cloud integration.
- Define interconnection architectures leveraging Equinix Fabric, Equinix Network Edge, ExpressRoute, FastConnect, cloud on-ramps, BGP, and regional hub models.
- Provide architectural direction for private LTE/5G networks supporting industrial mobility, OT/IoT connectivity, manufacturing operations, and integration with enterprise networking and security controls.
- Lead architecture initiatives for network automation and AI-enabled operations, including AIOps, observability, telemetry, Infrastructure as Code, intent-based networking, automated remediation, and cloud-native automation.
- Collaborate with architecture, security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to drive governance and technology strategy.