Network & Infrastructure Architect

About the role

DXC Technology is seeking a Network & Infrastructure Architect to lead the design and governance of a major greenfield campus transformation programme. You will own architecture across campus LAN, high‑density wireless, SD‑WAN, data centre fabric, compute, storage and virtualisation.

Key responsibilities

• Own architecture for campus LAN, routing, switching, SD‑WAN and high‑density wireless across multiple physically separated networks.
• Design wireless coverage, RF planning and controller architecture for residential, teaching and outdoor environments.
• Define network topology, segmentation, secure connectivity and integrate with security architecture.
• Design core network services such as DHCP, DNS and NTP/PTP.
• Design primary and disaster‑recovery site architecture using Cisco ACI spine‑leaf fabrics and multi‑site orchestration.
• Establish high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and growth models across the infrastructure estate.
• Develop architecture standards, assure performance, scalability and security, and guide engineers through delivery.
• Support bid responses, solution development and transition to NOC and managed services.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Typically 7+ years of industry experience with at least 3 years in network or infrastructure architecture.
• Strong problem‑solving, stakeholder communication and delivery coordination skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Required skills

• Cisco Catalyst 9000 campus switching, routing and segmentation.
• Cisco SD‑WAN and Cisco ACI (Nexus spine‑leaf, APIC, Nexus Dashboard).
• High‑density Cisco Wi‑Fi 6E/7 and wireless controller design.
• Cisco Catalyst Center automation, assurance and Cisco ISE integration.
• Windows/Linux compute, VMware virtualisation and SAN storage.
• Microsoft DHCP, Active Directory‑integrated DNS.
• CCNP Enterprise or CCNP Data Center certification; ITIL 4 Foundation.
• Experience with network automation platforms such as NetBrain.