Platform Architect

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.

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 E