Network Architect – Enterprise (Casino & Hospitality) Location: Las Vegas, NV Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire
Industry: Casino, Gaming & Hospitality Technology
Principal Network Engineer – Data Center, Campus & WAN (Zero Trust / EVPN) Fusion HCR is hiring! We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Network Engineer to support our client in the hospitality and gaming industry. This role will be responsible for designing, implementing, migrating, and operating a multi-property, standards-based network architecture supporting mission-critical casino, sportsbook, surveillance, OT/IoT, IPTV/media, and enterprise workloads. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep expertise in modern EVPN/VXLAN fabrics, BGP-based WAN and Internet edge designs, Zero Trust segmentation, and network automation and observability. The ideal candidate will thrive in highly available, revenue-critical environments where uptime, operational excellence, and change safety are essential.
Key Responsibilities Data Center & Campus Fabric Engineering
Design, deploy, and operate spine-leaf EVPN/VXLAN fabrics using open standards
Build Layer 3 to the edge campus architectures with routed access and Anycast gateways
Operate networks using centralized monitoring and operational visibility platforms
Develop and maintain automation workflows using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, NetBox, or Nautobot
Integrate telemetry and monitoring systems including streaming telemetry, NetFlow, sFlow, SNMP, and Syslog
Perform validation, impact analysis, and testing prior to production changes
Improve operational efficiency and reduce mean time to resolution through automation and observability
Migration, Risk Management & Change Control
Execute phased network migration strategies and parallel production cutovers
Develop and implement risk mitigation and rollback procedures
Support highly available, 24/7 operational environments
Coordinate cross-functional infrastructure changes with security, server, and application teams
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
Maintain accurate network documentation including diagrams, IP schemas, and configuration records
Develop operational runbooks and migration documentation
Support training and knowledge transfer to internal technical teams
Required Qualifications
7+ years of enterprise or service provider network engineering experience
Hands-on experience designing and deploying EVPN/VXLAN fabrics
Strong experience with BGP-based WAN and Internet edge architectures
Experience supporting large-scale campus and data center network environments
Strong troubleshooting skills across Layer 2–Layer 7 networking
Experience supporting highly available or regulated environments (gaming, hospitality, finance, healthcare, or similar)
Experience supporting IPTV, surveillance, or large-scale media distribution networks
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Arista, Palo Alto, Juniper, or similar enterprise networking platforms
Experience with cloud networking connectivity (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Professional certifications such as:
CCNP or CCIE
JNCIP or JNCIE
Arista ACE
Experience working in Zero Trust or PCI-regulated environments
Experience supporting broadcast, surveillance, or live media transport networks
Experience with network automation tools and infrastructure-as-code frameworks
Experience implementing PTP-aware network designs in production environments
Environment & Impact This role supports highly critical hospitality and gaming infrastructure where network reliability directly impacts business operations and revenue. The engineer will play a key role in modernizing and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available network systems across multiple properties. This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the current job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs or technical developments).