Principal Network Architect- Cisco IPFM & Critical Infrastructure (Q3 2026)

Job Description

Who You Are

You are a recognized technical authority in enterprise networking with a passion for designing resilient, mission-critical infrastructure. You thrive in solving highly complex networking challenges and enjoy developing scalable architectures that support business-critical operations. With deep expertise in Cisco enterprise technologies and critical infrastructure environments, you excel at translating customer requirements into secure, high-availability network solutions.

You are equally comfortable leading architecture discussions with executive stakeholders as you are mentoring engineering teams through complex technical implementations. Documentation, governance, and operational excellence are second nature to you, and you believe successful network architectures are built through collaboration, technical rigor, and continuous knowledge sharing. If you're energized by designing the next generation of enterprise and critical infrastructure networks while serving as a trusted advisor to customers and internal teams, you'll thrive at Myriad360.

About the Role

Myriad360 is seeking a Principal Network Architect - Cisco IPFM & Critical Infrastructure to lead the architecture, design, and lifecycle management of large-scale enterprise and mission-critical network environments. This role serves as the technical authority for Cisco Integrated Physical Facility Model (IPFM) architectures and provides strategic leadership across network design, implementation governance, operational readiness, and customer engagement.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience designing complex Cisco enterprise networks, supporting critical infrastructure environments, and guiding multidisciplinary engineering teams through architecture, deployment, and operational transition. This role partners closely with customers, project leadership, engineering, and sales teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable networking solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

- Lead the architecture and design of complex enterprise and critical infrastructure network environments.

- Serve as the subject matter expert for Cisco Integrated Physical Facility Model (IPFM) architecture and deployment methodologies.

- Develop scalable logical and physical network architectures supporting mission-critical facilities.

- Define architecture standards, reference designs, and best practices across enterprise networking initiatives.

- Provide technical leadership throughout planning, implementation, testing, migration, and operational transition activities.

Design Governance & Operational Excellence

- Develop and maintain high-level and low-level design documentation, implementation plans, standards, and operational runbooks.

- Perform architecture reviews, design validation, technical quality assurance, and risk assessments.

- Ensure network designs align with resiliency, redundancy, security, and operational best practices.

- Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning for critical infrastructure environments.

- Contribute to reusable architecture frameworks and documentation standards.

Customer Engagement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, executive stakeholders, and internal engineering teams.

- Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and design discussions throughout project lifecycles.

- Collaborate with technology partners, project managers, construction teams, facilities personnel, and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.

- Support pre-sales initiatives through solution architecture, technical strategy, customer presentations, and proposal development.

- Provide technical leadership during complex implementation, migration, and production cutover activities.

Engineering Enablement

- Mentor and develop engineering staff through technical guidance and knowledge transfer.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex networking issues affecting production environments.

- Promote technical excellence through documentation, architectural consistency, and operational readiness.

- Foster collaboration across engineering disciplines to ensure successful project delivery.

Security & Compliance

- Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies.

- Identify and escalate security risks to appropriate leadership while supporting remediation efforts.

- Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Skills & Experience

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.

- 15+ years of enterprise networking experience.

- Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale Cisco enterprise network infrastructures.

- Demonstrated expertise with Cisco Integrated Physical Facility Model (IPFM) methodologies.

- Deep knowledge of Cisco enterprise routing, switching, wireless, security, and data center technologies.

- Strong experience supporting mission-critical, high-availability network environments.

- Proven ability to develop enterprise architecture documentation, including HLDs, LLDs, implementation plans, and operational runbooks.

- Strong understanding of network resiliency, redundancy, disaster recovery, and operational best practices.

- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to engage executive stakeholders and technical teams.

- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives while mentoring engineering teams.

- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as project requirements dictate.

Preferred Qualifications

- Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or equivalent advanced networking certification.

- Experience supporting large public venues, stadiums, entertainment facilities, airports, smart buildings, healthcare, or other critical infrastructure environments.

- Experience with campus and data center networking architectures.

- Experience with network automation and orchestration platforms.

- Experience working alongside multidisciplinary construction, facilities, and technology teams.

- Experience supporting international infrastructure deployments.

A Little About Us

Our mission is to challenge and enable our employees to achieve great things.

We live and breathe our core values:

- We Before Me: We demonstrate empathy through our actions and solicit diverse voices and opinions. We put ourselves in each other’s shoes, readily admit our mistakes, and generously share our time and knowledge.

- Dare To Be Great: We are big-picture thinkers who focus on solutions to problems. We solicit and offer actionable feedback to others without hesitation. We embrace opportunities to improve ourselves, our teams, and our work. We aim to be the best of the best.

- Own It: We set clear expectations, communicate proactively, and follow through on our commitments. We take pride in the experiences we create and the outcomes we deliver. We are personally invested in the success of our team and our clients. We iterate to deliver ever better results.

We are consistently listed among Inc & Crain's "Best Places to Work" and we're proud of our accessible & engaged executive team. We believe in cultivating an atmosphere of inclusion and providing an environment that enables every employee to work to the best of their ability.

Some of Our Benefits

- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)

- Incentive compensation plans for all employees

- Company-funded 401k contributions

- Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance

- Annual BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) reimbursement up to $500

- Paid Parental Leave

- Transparent, candid culture with 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop

- Quirky, diverse, respectful, high-performing coworkers you’ll want to achieve greatness with!

Must be based in the United States.

Pursuant to the NYC Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range in New York City for this position is $250,000 to $275,000 plus opportunities for profit-sharing bonus and/or commission. Compensation in other geographies may vary.

Myriad360 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.