Equinix needs a strategic technical leader to guide customers in network architecture choices, evangelize solutions, and work with engineering to evolve the product portfolio. This role is crucial for evaluating and refining Equinix's own network design, driving best practices, and providing market insights to executive leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of direct experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise or service provider networks, ideally across diverse environments and architectures
- Prior experience at a cloud provider, large-scale enterprise in a principal architect role
- Experience with API-driven architectures, network automation frameworks, and modern DevOps practices
- Deep expertise in networking and cloud technologies
- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural strategy at scale
- Proven track record collaborating with engineering and product teams to shape platform capabilities
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to strategic customers, guiding them through network architecture decisions, design patterns, and technology adoption
- Act as a technical evangelist—communicating our networking vision, platform capabilities, and roadmap to customers, partners, and industry stakeholders
- Lead executive and architectural conversations to help customers modernize and optimize their networks using our portfolio and best practices
- Work closely with engineering and product leadership to influence product direction, identify gaps, and drive enhancements aligned with real customer needs
- Provide technical validation and architectural input for new features, integrations, and platform extensions
- Evaluate and shape the evolution of our own network architecture as a provider, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence
- Conduct architectural reviews, assess new technologies, and champion standards and design principles across teams
Other
- Recognized industry thought leadership
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling messages
- Hybrid
- Remote
- Full time
