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Fervo Energy seeks a Network Architect to design and evolve the company's network infrastructure across corporate IT, hybrid cloud, and operational technology (OT) environments. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role, not a strategy-only position.
You will be the subject-matter expert for the Fortinet Security Fabric (FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiNAC, and Secure SD-WAN), responsible for defining how this platform integrates with Cisco-based OT networks, cloud services, and cybersecurity controls. You will establish architectural standards, document design rationale, and advise both technical and executive stakeholders while remaining close enough to implementation to support commissioning, major changes, and complex incident resolution.
Key responsibilities include:
• Design target-state architecture for enterprise, cloud, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, and site connectivity, balancing reliability, security, maintainability, scalability, and cost.
• Own architectural standards and lifecycle strategy for the Fortinet Security Fabric, including high availability, capacity, firmware, licensing, and platform roadmaps.
• Define secure integration patterns between Fortinet-based IT networks and Cisco-based OT environments, including routing, segmentation, access control, and resilient interconnects.
• Produce reference architectures, topology diagrams, technical decision records, configuration standards, and implementation guidance.
• Develop and execute a roadmap to move network provisioning and change management toward version-controlled, automated delivery through CI/CD.
• Build reusable templates and automation using FortiManager, APIs, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Remain hands-on with configuration, deployment, commissioning, upgrades, and troubleshooting of Fortinet and Cisco network infrastructure.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex network incidents, leading root-cause analysis and durable remediation.
• Lead network design and delivery for new site builds, plant commissioning, expansions, and infrastructure refreshes.
• Design and enforce firewall policy, network access control, segmentation, secure remote access, and logging standards in partnership with cybersecurity.
• Mentor engineers and contractors, and raise the team's ability to reason through design decisions.
Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of network engineering or infrastructure operations experience with meaningful responsibility for architecture, standards, or complex design decisions. Deep, recent hands-on experience across the Fortinet Security Fabric. Strong Cisco routing and switching experience and ability to integrate enterprise IT networks with OT or industrial environments. Advanced knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs and VRFs, IPsec and SSL VPN, QoS, high availability, and network segmentation. Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud networking in Azure or AWS. Experience with network automation, CI/CD, scripting, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform. Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills in complex, uptime-critical environments. Excellent written and verbal communication.
Preferred: Fortinet certifications (FCP or FCSS in Secure Networking or Network Security), Cisco certification (CCNP or CCIE), experience supporting industrial control systems or operational technology networks, site commissioning in regulated infrastructure, and familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, IEC 62443, or NERC CIP.
