Substantive architecture experience across the modern datacenter stack, including x86 compute, accelerated/GPU compute, servers, HCI or converged infrastructure, switching and routing, storage, backup and disaster recovery, virtualization, containers, management platforms, monitoring, and physical datacenter considerations. Strong networking knowledge, including Ethernet and high-speed datacenter fabrics, VLANs, VRFs, routing, segmentation, out-of-band management, microsegmentation, software-defined networking, and network performance for AI and data-intensive workloads.