Job description
Role: Network Architect (DDI)
Location: Houston/Chicago (1 day onsite in a week)
Duration: 06 Months, very high possibility for getting permanent
Notes
- Seeking a Senior/Architect-level DDI Engineer with a strong engineering and architecture background.
- This is not a production support role.
- Candidate will be responsible for engineering, solution design, and participating in the Architecture Review Board (ARB) by reviewing technical designs.
- Looking for professionals with recent hands-on engineering experience.
Experience Required
- Minimum 5-7 years of engineering experience in DDI/network infrastructure.
- Recent experience must be in an engineering or architecture role, not support.
- Enterprise-level experience is required, ideally supporting environments with 1,000 users.
- Experience working across both on-premises and cloud environments.
Strong experience with:
- Infoblox (preferred primary DDI platform)
- BlueCat or similar DDI solutions (acceptable alternative)
- Active Directory (preferred)
- AWS Route 53
- DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI)
- Enterprise networking technologies
Job Description
The DDI Engineer will work within foundational services organization. The ideal candidate will design, operate, and enhance a hybrid DNS/DHCP/IPAM infrastructure spanning on-prem, software-defined infrastructure, and cloud environments, such as AWS Route53 and/or Azure DNS.
- Stay abreast of industry knowledge of DDI technologies (Infoblox, BlueCat etc.) and manage hybrid DNS architectures across on-prem, AWS Route53, and Azure DNS to ensure seamless name resolutions and zone delegation.
- Automates DNS/DHCP/IPAM workflows using Ansible, Python, and APIs; implements CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and automated zone-sync validation and compliance enforcement.
- Troubleshoots complex DNS/DHCP/IPAM issues, conducts detailed RCAs, provides permanent corrective fixes, and leads Priority 1 incident and network-outage investigations.
- Establishes and maintains technical standards, reviews security releases and CVEs, provides mitigation guidance, and certifies hardware platforms and code versions.
- Maintains comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and procedural materials to support operational excellence and global team knowledge continuity.
- Interfaces with Cloud, Network, Security teams, other technology towers, and vendors to design resilient hybrid DDI solutions and ensure alignment across internal and external partners.
- Acts as the Network SME on initiatives, collaborates on scopes of work (including budgets), partners with business teams, and participates in long-term technology strategy and direction.
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.