Company Description
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
The Platform Architect is responsible for designing and evolving scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms that support infrastructure, network intelligence, and application delivery. This role combines cloud platform architecture with expertise in traffic analytics, DDoS mitigation, and large-scale network observability.
This role partners with engineering, operations, and security teams to deliver highly scalable, data-driven platform solutions across cloud and on-prem environments, particularly within service provider and telecom ecosystems.
Responsibilities
Design and architect scalable, secure, and highly available platform solutions
Build and maintain telemetry ingestion pipelines (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX)
Support and enhance DDoS detection and mitigation platforms
Analyze network traffic patterns and provide insights for optimization and security
Define and implement Infrastructure as Code and automation strategies
Enable observability, monitoring, and performance optimization across platforms
Collaborate with cross-functional teams on platform and network initiatives
Integrate and support traffic intelligence platforms such as Nokia Deepfield
Provide technical leadership and contribute to architectural standards
Develop and maintain documentation and best practices
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Qualifications
Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking (BGP, OSPF, ISIS, DNS, SNMP)
Professional experience in a service provider network
Experience with NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX and traffic telemetry systems
Familiarity with DDoS detection and mitigation strategies
Demonstrated platform ownership and operations of DDoS platforms such as Nokia Deepfield, Netscout Arbor, or other similar platforms
Experience with Linux/Unix systems
Programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar)
Experience with RESTful APIs and automation
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Kubernetes and containerization
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
Understanding of distributed systems and microservices
Experience with big data platforms (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark)
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in platform engineering, network engineering, or architecture roles
Estimated base salary range: $77,100 - $118,600 USD/annually
Work Authorization Requirement: This position is not eligible for employment-based visa sponsorship. Zayo will not provide, transfer, or assume sponsorship for any employment visa or work authorization for this position now or in the future.
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The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.
Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement…