Design Engineer
Job ID: 112554
Location: Dallas, Texas [On-Site]
Category: Infrastructure
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 05/12/2026
Role Summary
A Network Design Engineer is responsible for designing and delivering large-scale enterprise network infrastructure solutions. This senior-level position focuses on data center and enterprise network architecture, working collaboratively with implementation teams and stakeholders to ensure scalable, resilient, and well-documented network solutions. The role requires a deep technical expertise combined with strong communication skills to support complex data center environments and large network migrations.
Responsibilities
- Design and validate large-scale data center network architectures, including VXLAN-based spine-leaf fabrics (EVPN).
- Develop High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) aligned with enterprise standards and business requirements.
- Lead or participate in data center build-outs, technology refreshes, and migration initiatives.
- Design and support enterprise LAN/WAN architectures across distributed environments.
- Prepare detailed Bills of Materials (BOMs) and implementation guidelines for network deployment.
- Review and validate network designs through technical discussions and design reviews.
- Work across multi-vendor environments, notably with Arista and Cisco platforms, ensuring compatibility and performance.
- Apply principles of routing, switching, resiliency, high availability, and scalability to design solutions.
- Ensure network designs meet security, operational, and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with implementation, operations, vendor, and architecture teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and documentation.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise network engineering with a focus on design.
- Proven experience designing and implementing large data centers, data center migrations, and enterprise LAN/WAN environments.
- Strong expertise in VXLAN/EVPN fabric design and spine-leaf architectures.
- Ability to clearly articulate design principles, trade-offs, and architectural decisions.
- Extensive experience working in multi-vendor environments, particularly with Arista EOS and Cisco platforms.
- CCIE certification (Data Center, Routing & Switching) or equivalent expert-level certification preferred.
- Advanced Arista certifications (e.g., L4 or higher) desirable.
- Exposure to network automation tools such as Ansible, Python, or templated design approaches is a plus.
- Excellent design documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in complex, regulated, or mission-critical enterprise settings.
- Must be available for full-time, first shift / Eastern Time work schedule.
Publishing Pay Range: $53.00 – $55.00 Hourly
This position is based in the office and requires employee to work on-site.
