Network Architect

As the Principal Network Architect, you will shape Hertz's global network direction, collaborate with technology and business leaders, guide complex architecture decisions, evaluate emerging technologies, influence strategic partners, and help engineering and operations teams translate target-state designs into secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective network capabilities.

What You’ll Do:
 

• Own the enterprise network strategy, target-state architecture, standards, reference patterns, governance framework, and multi-year roadmap, aligning business objectives, security requirements, resiliency goals, operational needs, and technology investments.
• Define and govern enterprise architecture across LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, cloud networking, internet edge, network security, segmentation, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and secure remote access technologies, including VPN, ZTNA, SASE, and SSE.
• Establish hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity architectures covering landing zones, transit networks, private connectivity, routing, segmentation, secure ingress/egress, and integration across cloud, branch, data center, partner, and enterprise environments.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of network platforms and security services, including Fortinet technologies, SD-WAN, firewalls, centralized policy management, telemetry, observability, automation, and lifecycle management.
• Define automation-first architecture principles and reusable engineering patterns, leveraging Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, automated provisioning, compliance validation, observability, and platform integration to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
• Provide senior architecture leadership for strategic initiatives, major transformations, mergers, integrations, and critical technology decisions, conducting architecture assessments that balance business value, security, resiliency, scalability, technical debt, cost, and operational sustainability.
• Establish enterprise resiliency, performance, and continuity strategies, including capacity planning, traffic engineering, disaster recovery, provider diversity, failure-domain isolation, recovery objectives, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Drive technology modernization, innovation, and portfolio optimization by evaluating emerging technologies, reducing complexity and technical debt, improving standardization and automation, and influencing strategic vendor and service-provider partnerships.
• Develop executive-level strategies, business cases, roadmaps, architecture metrics, and investment recommendations, while collaborating across Enterprise Architecture domains and mentoring architects and senior engineers to ensure consistent architectural practices and successful adoption.