Principal Network Infrastructure Architect

Tenarai is seeking a visionary Principal Network Infrastructure Architect to lead modernization, performance engineering, and automation‑first initiatives across large‑scale infrastructure environments. This includes data centers, Points of Presence (PoPs), backbone networks and edge deployments. This role will focus on architecting scalable infrastructure, driving open‑source network and infrastructure automation, and accelerating content delivery and performance. The Principal Network Infrastructure Architect will act as a senior technical advisor and innovation partner to client infrastructure leaders and will play a key role in shaping our digital infrastructure services strategy.

• Building large‑scale data centers, cloud‑native infrastructure, and network backbone environments.
• Modernizing network and infrastructure for performance, resilience, and content acceleration.
• Driving at‑scale infrastructure and network automation using open‑source tooling (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Net Box, Python‑based frameworks).
• Designing and implementing infrastructure‑focused build‑and‑test labs for operational validation.
• Architecting AI/ML platforms for predictive infrastructure operations and high‑performance computing.
• Enabling cloud and infrastructure cost optimization across hybrid/multi‑cloud environments.
• Establishing observability, telemetry, and monitoring frameworks for digital infrastructure.

Infrastructure Transformation

• Architect modern, scalable infrastructure solutions tailored for enterprise and tech customers, spanning data centers, edge/PoP environments, and backbone networks.
• Lead initiatives to integrate AI/ML into infrastructure operations to support predictive management, self‑healing systems, and anomaly detection.
• Drive performance architecture initiatives to optimize content delivery, network throughput, and low‑latency compute environments.
• Define physical‑to‑virtual infrastructure strategies, including rack‑and‑stack design, structured cabling, and remote provisioning. Automation & Optimization
• Build and evolve open‑source‑based infrastructure automation frameworks to streamline provisioning, deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Champion network automation engineering practices, including zero‑touch provisioning and intent‑based networking.
• Lead cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, and network infrastructure—ensuring both performance and eficiency at scale.
• Create reusable playbooks and modular components for rapid deployment and replication of infra patterns across sites.
• Establish comprehensive observability and telemetry frameworks that provide real‑time visibility, alerting, and analytics across infrastructure layers.
• Embed resilience, fault tolerance, and auto‑remediation into infrastructure designs.
• Collaborate with SRE and operations teams to build unified dashboards and health scoring systems for proactive issue resolution.
• Partner with client infrastructure leaders to co‑create transformative modernization strategies and roadmaps.
• Act as the face of Tenarai’s infrastructure practice in customer technical reviews, governance boards, and strategic initiatives.
• Evangelize Tenarai’s capabilities in cloud‑native, open‑source‑driven, and AI‑augmented infrastructure transformation through whitepapers, forums, and innovation councils.

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, network engineering, and operations within hyperscale or cloud‑scale environments.
• Deep understanding of the physical and logical aspects of infrastructure design, including rack‑and‑stack, structured cabling, provisioning tools, and device lifecycle management.
• Hands‑on experience with network backbone, PoP…