Senior Network Architect (Carrier)

Join our client’s network engineering team and help keep a live Australian carrier network stable, secure and performing at its best. This is a hands-on senior role for an engineer who wants to configure, deploy and troubleshoot changes directly—not hand designs over for someone else to implement.

Our client is a wholesale telecommunications provider operating its own ASN and carrier-grade infrastructure. Its network carries nbn, business internet and voice services for hundreds of Australian MSPs.

About the role

Work remotely from the Philippines during Australian business hours, with occasional after-hours maintenance windows and escalations. The team would ideally suit someone based within two to three hours of Makati to support in-person planning when needed.

As a senior engineer and Level 3 escalation point, you’ll work across a national carrier network in a small team where decisions are made quickly and engineers have genuine ownership.

What you’ll be doing

• Configure, test and deploy changes across routers, switches and firewalls.
• Plan and lead production maintenance windows, including rollback planning.
• Build, extend and troubleshoot VXLAN and eVPN data centre and point-of-presence fabrics.
• Manage complex Level 3 faults through to root cause, including upstream carrier and vendor issues.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting and capacity reporting to provide clear insight into network performance.
• Apply secure configuration standards, firewall policies and DDoS mitigation.
• Contribute to configuration-as-code practices, using version control and review processes.
• Document changes and create runbooks, while raising recommendations on capacity, resilience and network improvements.

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on production experience within a telco, ISP or carrier network; enterprise-only experience is not a match for this role.
• Production experience building and troubleshooting VXLAN/eVPN fabrics.
• Strong core routing and switching knowledge, including BGP, MPLS, OSPF, VLANs, spanning tree and BFD.
• Experience owning production changes and maintenance windows, including rollback.
• Confidence taking complex faults through to root cause.
• Practical experience with QoS, IPSec VPNs and firewall policy design and troubleshooting.
• Production experience with Juniper or Arista platforms; experience with both is ideal. Cisco, Fortinet or Sophos is an advantage.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the confidence to raise issues and share ideas.
• Regular use of Claude Code or similar agentic AI tools in your day-to-day work.

Additional experience that’s useful

Experience with BNG and subscriber management, AAA/RADIUS, Ansible or Python, Git workflows, ISIS, multicast, SSL VPN, DDoS mitigation, Terraform, network CI, or monitoring tools such as LibreNMS, Zabbix or Prometheus will be valued. Knowledge of SD-WAN, IPv6, virtualisation, SIP/VoIP or Australian nbn access technologies is also beneficial.

Certifications are welcome but not required. Relevant credentials may include CCNP/CCIE Service Provider, JNCIP/JNCIE, Fortinet NSE4 or above, Nokia NRS or Arista ACE.

What’s on offer

• Full-time remote work from the Philippines, with a high-end work setup provided.
• Competitive salary, HMO and 13th-month pay.
• Training and certification support.
• The opportunity to work hands-on with a national carrier network and genuine ASN.