Full-Time
Senior Solution Architect
Pre-Sales
Updated on 9/3/2026
IP Fabrics
51-200 employees
Automates network operations and assurance
No salary listed
Boston, MA, USA
Remote
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- At least 6 years of enterprise networking expertise designing, supporting, or automating large-scale global environments, including data center, software-defined networking, campus, and software-defined wide area networking.
- Strong experience across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud networking, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Deep knowledge of architectural principles, including modular design, tradeoffs, simplicity versus overengineering, business-goal alignment, Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and concepts, Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, virtual routing and forwarding, access control lists, and virtual local area networks.
- Experience with one or more of ServiceNow Configuration Management Database, NetBox, Nautobot, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technology stacks.
- Ability to translate technical complexity into clear, outcome-driven conversations with business and technical leaders.
- Ability to communicate effectively in whiteboard sessions and executive presentations.
- Experience building structured discovery findings, success criteria, and post-proof-of-concept value narratives.
- Lead technical discovery sessions that uncover enterprise challenges and align them to measurable outcomes.
- Translate network assurance opportunities into clear business impact statements covering risk reduction, compliance readiness, and operational efficiency.
- Design and deliver proof-of-concept engagements demonstrating IP Fabric’s value across hybrid and cloud networks.
- Demonstrate integrations with ServiceNow, NetBox, Nautobot, Splunk, and other ecosystem partners.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to channel structured field feedback and influence roadmap direction.
- Partner with Account Executives to define technical strategy, scope proof-of-concept engagements, and drive evaluations to success.
- Enable internal teams and partners with narratives explaining how IP Fabric works and why it matters to enterprise transformation.
- Represent IP Fabric as a trusted advisor at customer workshops, conferences, and industry events.
- Certifications such as Cisco Certified Network Professional, Cisco Certified Design Expert, or DevNet Professional, or equivalent experience.
- Background with network assurance, observability, or orchestration platforms such as IP Fabric, Cisco Network Services Orchestrator, or GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with security, compliance, or change-validation frameworks such as National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Internet Security, Payment Card Industry, or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
- Hands-on automation skills with Python, representational state transfer application programming interfaces, Git workflows, Jinja, Nornir, YAML, JSON, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
IP Fabrics provides a SaaS platform for enterprise network assurance. It automates network operations to prevent outages by offering deep visibility and security for complex networks. The product combines dynamic network discovery, network intent verification, and automated network documentation to help teams understand how their networks function, track changes, and verify that configurations meet required standards. The subscription-based service continuously updates with new features and improvements.Compared to competitors, IP Fabrics emphasizes real-time, end-to-end visibility of large, intricate networks and automatic validation of network intent, along with automatically generated documentation, to support compliance and incident prevention. The company’s goal is to help enterprises avoid outages, improve security, and maintain compliance by delivering an always-on, observable view of the network.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$30.7M
Headquarters
Prague, Czechia
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- January 14, 2026 added Azure and GCP visibility, expanding hybrid-network coverage.
- April 22, 2026 MCP Server makes IP Fabric usable for enterprise AIOps workflows.
- June 11, 2026 CFO hire from One Peak signals tighter fundraising and discipline.
What critics are saying
- ServiceNow and Illumio can absorb IP Fabric's features into broader platforms by 2027.
- Its CMDB mismatch claims invite buyer skepticism if audits reveal lower discrepancy rates.
- No public funding after 2026 means slower sales can force layoffs before 2027.
What makes IP Fabrics unique
- IP Fabric builds a vendor-neutral network digital twin, not another monitoring dashboard.
- July 28, 2026 ServiceNow Marketplace integration turns CMDB drift into a measurable trust score.
- September 2, 2026 Illumio partnership links application context to validated network behavior.
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Paid Vacation
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Anniversary Rewards
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Wellness Program
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
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↓ -2%IP Fabric Partners With Illumio to Bring Application Context to Network and Cloud Assurance TMCnet News [September 02, 2026] | / | IP Fabric Partners With Illumio to Bring Application Context to Network and Cloud Assurance BOSTON, Sept. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - IP Fabric, the leading network digital twin platform, today announced a partnership with Illumio, the breach containment company, to give organizations a clearer, more complete understanding of how their applications depend on underlying network and cloud infrastructure. Modern applications span increasingly complex hybrid environments, while the information needed to understand them remains divided among network, application and security tools. This fragmentation creates a critical blind spot. Teams may know what the network permits or what workload-level policy enforces, but they lack a single view of how those controls work together to affect an application. IP Fabric is working to close that gap by correlating application context from Illumio with observed network behavior. The resulting capabilities will help joint customers understand application dependencies and determine whether network, cloud or workload-level controls are affecting connectivity without replacing their existing application monitoring or security investments. "Enterprises have invested heavily in understanding their applications and network, but the truth remains fragmented across teams and tools," said Pavel Bykov, CEO of IP Fabric. "IP Fabric and Illumio have the technology and expertise to change that. By connecting application and workload context with validated network and cloud behavior, we intend to give enterprises something they have never had before: a trustworthy, end-to-end understanding of how their most critical applications are connected, controlled and affected by change." The collaboration wil help network, application and security teams to troubleshoot connectivity problems faster, understand application dependencies, assess the potential impact of network changes and validate that the segmentation policy aligns with actual network and cloud behavior. Customers will gain this additional context while preserving their existing application monitoring, infrastructure and microsegmentation investments. "Workload segmentation is most effective when organizations understand it in the context of the complete infrastructure path," said Todd Palmer, senior vice president of global partner sales and alliances at Illumio. "By bringing together Illumio's application and workload intelligence with IP Fabric's deep understanding of network and cloud behavior, we can help customers better understand how their critical applications communicate and where security controls should be applied. This insight gives teams great confidence to make changes, reduce risk, and keep applications running securely." The collaboration will span technical development and go-to-market programs, bringing their complementary capabilities to joint customers more effectively. It also marks the beginning of a broader effort to help network, application and security teams work from a shared understanding of the environment rather than separate and sometimes conflicting views. Additional details, including availability, will be announced at a later date. Visit the IP Fabric website to learn more. About IP Fabric IP Fabric is the leading network digital twin platform, offering a continuously validated view of cloud, network and security systems to improve stability, security and spend. Within minutes, the platform creates a unified view of devices, state, configurations and interdependencies, normalizing multi-vendor data and revealing operational truth through automated intent checks. By uncovering risks and providing actionable insights, IP Fabric empowers enterprises to accelerate IT and business transformation while reducing costs. Trusted by industry leaders like Red Hat, Major League Baseball and Air France, IP Fabric delivers the foundation for end-to-end network governance. Learn more at ipfabric.io and follow the company on LinkedIn. Media Contact Geena Pickering Look Left Marketing [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage] |
IP Fabric's ServiceNow Integration keeps CMDB continuously accurate and updated. Customers can validate their ServiceNow CMDB against the most complete and accurate model of their network to cut unnecessary spending, prove continuous compliance, and inform every team and tool in their network management ecosystem. July 28, 2026 09:02 ET | Source: IP Fabric BOSTON, July 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - IP Fabric, the leading network digital twin platform, announced that its ServiceNow CMDB integration is now available directly in the ServiceNow Marketplace. Network teams and tools rely on CMDB (configuration management database) data to determine what actually exists in their networks. Most CMDBs diverge from network reality by 20-40%. This gap often consists of unmanaged devices, connections, and configurations, which can inflate operational and capital expenditures, while also posing a risk to security and regulatory compliance. IP Fabric's ServiceNow integration solves this problem by importing data from IP Fabric's network digital twin into your ServiceNow CMDB, exposing any gaps between your CMDB and your network reality. This integration anchors the CMDB to your actual network, ensuring that every team, tool, and workflow in the network management ecosystem is always working from the most complete and accurate data. "Network security, operations, and compliance teams have long struggled with the effects of poor CMDB accuracy, ranging from unnecessary operational expenses to heightened security and regulatory compliance risks," said Pavel Bykov, co-founder and CEO of IP Fabric. "IP Fabric offers an easy solution to this problem by building a digital twin of your network from end-to-end. This digital twin can be used to validate the contents of your ServiceNow CMDB against your network's actual state and behavior." IP Fabric Automates CMDB Accuracy CMDBs struggle to discover complex, multi-vendor networks and can't reliably map Layer 2-Layer 3 topologies. As a result, CMDBs can't give you a complete picture of your network on their own. IP Fabric takes a different approach to network discovery, using read-only access to map every device, connection, and configuration from core to edge to cloud. IP Fabric uses this discovery data to build a vendor-neutral model of your actual network state and behavior, which can be compared against your ServiceNow CMDB to surface any discrepancies like: * Devices that appear only in IP Fabric. * Devices that appear only in ServiceNow. * Devices that appear in both IP Fabric and ServiceNow, but that have differences between them. IP Fabric also calculates an overall trust score, which reflects the overlap between your CMDB and your actual network. When you have a high trust score, you can govern your network confidently, knowing that every team, tool, and workflow is contextualized by the most complete and up-to-date understanding of your network. Customers can download IP Fabric's ServiceNow integration through the ServiceNow Marketplace. Learn more on the IP Fabric blog. About IP Fabric IP Fabric is the leading network digital twin platform, offering a continuously validated view of cloud, network and security systems to improve stability, security and spend. Within minutes, the platform creates a unified view of devices, state, configurations and interdependencies, normalizing multi-vendor data and revealing operational truth through automated intent checks. By uncovering risks and providing actionable insights, IP Fabric empowers enterprises to accelerate IT and business transformation while reducing costs. Trusted by industry leaders like Red Hat, Major League Baseball and Air France, IP Fabric delivers the foundation for end-to-end network governance. Learn more at ipfabric.io and follow the company on LinkedIn. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Why is CMDB Accuracy Such a Pervasive Problem? Most CMDBs are incorrect about 20-40% of the infrastructure. This is because they rely heavily on manual updates, which can happen days or weeks apart. CMDB discovery is also limited; it can't discover all the vendors in your network, and isn't able to reliably map Layer 2-Layer 3 dependencies, resulting in an incomplete picture of your network. Why Does CMDB Health Matter? CMDBs don't exist in isolation; they feed into everything from your budget to your security and regulatory compliance. If you're not confident in your CMDB accuracy, that could mean you're paying maintenance fees for devices that are no longer in your network, or missing a misconfigured security policy that an auditor will uncover later. For example, even a 10% discrepancy between your CMDB and your actual network could lead to: * An increased risk of outages, which can cost between $39,000 to $2 million per hour. * An increased risk of regulatory noncompliance, which can cost $10-20 million per incident. * Unnecessary maintenance and renewal fees, which can cost $300,000 per year. * Unnecessary spending on network refreshes, which can cost $250,000 per refresh. On the other hand, if you are able to trust your CMDB, it opens the door to cost savings, confident budget planning, and continuous proof of compliance. How Does IP Fabric's ServiceNow Integration Work? The integration compares IP Fabric's network digital twin against your ServiceNow CMDB data. It maps devices, interfaces, adapters, and Layer 1-Layer 3 links to the appropriate CMDB CI (Configuration Item) classes to create a shared view of CMDB health through device counts, discrepancy reporting, and a trust score that measures your CMDB's alignment with your actual network. All of this information can then be used to manually or automatically update your CMDB. Can I Use IP Fabric to Update My ServiceNow CMDB? Yes. IP Fabric's ServiceNow integration can surface any inconsistencies between your CMDB and your actual network. From there it can automatically update your Network Gear Table using data from your latest IP Fabric discovery.
IP Fabric expands NetBox Integration to deliver continuous network validation for enterprise operations. New capabilities help enterprises align network intent with operational reality to reduce the risk of automations and configuration changes. May 13, 2026 09:04 ET | Source: IP Fabric BOSTON, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - IP Fabric, the leading network digital twin platform, today announced expanded integration capabilities with NetBox. These capabilities compare the actual network state discovered by IP Fabric with the intended network state stored in NetBox. By highlighting the differences between the network's actual versus intended state, organizations gain the visibility essential for validating day-to-day changes, automating workflows and enforcing compliance controls. "Enterprises rely on multiple operational systems to manage and automate modern networks, but those systems can create value only when the actual and intended network states are aligned," said Pavel Bykov, co-founder and CEO of IP Fabric. "IP Fabric's enhanced NetBox integration provides customers with a continuously validated understanding of their network, which ensures that services are available and reduces the risk of projects like network automation and AIOps." Only IP Fabric continuously discovers all network devices, connections, and configurations from core to cloud to edge. Each time IP Fabric discovers the network, it runs a series of configuration checks against the network intent stored in NetBox. This feedback loop takes only a few minutes to run, and is a reliable way to find unauthorized devices, identify inventory and configuration drift, and validate that both manual and automated changes have had the intended effect on the network. As a result, enterprises can rest assured that the network remains resilient and secure as they expand automation and AI initiatives, as well as other large-scale digital transformation projects. Enterprise Benefits of IP Fabric's NetBox Integration Network teams are under increasing pressure to move faster without introducing risk. IP Fabric's enhanced NetBox integration introduces fast, enterprise-scale data syncs that help organizations to maintain a continuous feedback loop between network intent and network reality. This opens the door to: * Build AIOps workflows based on normalized, interoperable data. * Accelerate NetBox deployment and lifecycle management. * Validate manual and automated workflows. * Proactively identify configuration drift. * Prove continuous security and regulatory compliance. To learn more about IP Fabric's NetBox integration, visit the IP Fabric blog or schedule a demo today. About IP Fabric IP Fabric is the leading network digital twin platform, offering a continuously validated view of cloud, network and security systems to improve stability, security and spend. Within minutes, the platform creates a unified view of devices, state, configurations and interdependencies, normalizing multi-vendor data and revealing operational truth through automated intent checks. By uncovering risks and providing actionable insights, IP Fabric empowers enterprises to accelerate IT and business transformation while reducing costs. Trusted by industry leaders like Red Hat, Major League Baseball and Air France, IP Fabric delivers the foundation for end-to-end network governance. Learn more at ipfabric.io and follow the company on LinkedIn.
IP Fabric MCP Server eliminates barriers to enterprise AIOps adoption. Purpose-built prompt library and secure deployment empower enterprises to operationalize AI in network environments Ip Fabric's Enterprise MCP Server BOSTON, April 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - IP Fabric, the leading network digital twin platform, today launched a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to eliminate barriers to enterprise AIOps adoption. As the first to combine secure, in-platform deployment with a ready-to-use prompt library, IP Fabric empowers organizations to safely and easily bring AI into network operations. While MCP servers and AI integrations are increasingly common, most fall short in enterprise environments where security, control and trusted data are non-negotiable. IP Fabric eliminates these barriers to enterprise AIOps adoption with a purpose-built solution that delivers a practical and governed path to operationalizing AI in network environments. Enabled directly from the IP Fabric appliance UI, the new MCP server securely delivers the full depth of IP Fabric's holistic understanding of the entire network and cloud estate - every device, connection and configuration - in a secure, governed manner to AIOps and other automation initiatives. Only IP Fabric's MCP server is opt-in by default, ensuring full control over data access, which is critical in highly regulated enterprise environments. Its pre-built and expert-tested prompt library provides a clear starting point for common use cases, helping teams apply AI easily and securely to real operational workflows. "Enterprises are racing toward network automation, only to question if they can trust AI to deliver an outcome that won't inadvertently damage digital business," said Pavel Bykov, CEO of IP Fabric. "We built our MCP server to solve that problem at enterprise scale. By combining secure deployment, governed access and a library of proven prompts, we give teams a safe and practical way to securely and successfully bring AI into network operations." IP Fabric Intelligence and Digital Twin Fuel Smarter and Safer AIOps IP Fabric's platform continuously discovers, models and validates network state against business intent. With the MCP server, that intelligence is accessible beyond those who already know where to look. New users and audiences, both technical and nontechnical, can query the network with natural language to generate insights and accelerate decision-making. With IP Fabric, enterprises can build a verified and vendor-neutral digital twin of the entire network estate in minutes. This can be used to run automated compliance checks, verify autonomous decisions made by AI, and simulate "what-if" scenarios before changes hit production infrastructure. IP Fabric's MCP server unlocks new AIOps use cases out of the box, including: * Compliance and configuration drift detection that continuously validates the network state against intended design, such as all major security (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001) and regulatory (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIS2, DORA) frameworks. * Automated troubleshooting and root cause analysis, enabling AI agents to rapidly identify where and why network behavior deviates from intent. * Strategic change planning and project acceleration, ranging from SD-WAN migrations and M&A integrations to cloud adoption, grounding high-risk transformation initiatives in verified network intelligence from day one. To learn more about IP Fabric's new capabilities, download the prompt library or schedule a demo today. About IP Fabric IP Fabric is the leading network digital twin platform, offering a continuously validated view of cloud, network and security systems to improve stability, security and spend. Within minutes, the platform creates a unified view of devices, state, configurations and interdependencies, normalizing multi-vendor data and revealing operational truth through automated intent checks. By uncovering risks and providing actionable insights, IP Fabric empowers enterprises to accelerate IT and business transformation while reducing costs. Trusted by industry leaders like Red Hat, Major League Baseball and Air France, IP Fabric delivers the foundation for end-to-end network governance. Learn more at ipfabric.io and follow the company on LinkedIn.
Equinix offering targets automated ai-centric network operations. Apr 17, 2026 3 mins Equinix Fabric Intelligence helps enterprises design, deploy, and manage their infrastructure. Equinix has introduced Fabric Intelligence, a service designed to automate and optimize network infrastructure as enterprises scale artificial intelligence workloads across multiple distributed locations. The new platform addresses a growing gap between AI applications, which depend on real-time connectivity across clouds, data centers, and edge locations, and legacy network architectures built around static configurations, ticket-driven workflows, and scheduled change windows, according to Equinix. The result is customers find it increasingly difficult to scale AI applications. Fabric Intelligence provides a suite of AI-native features enabling enterprises to design, deploy, and manage their infrastructure using intuitive tools like natural language, automated agentic workflows, and predictive insights. The system interprets telemetry from distributed infrastructure and dynamically adjusts network configurations to maintain performance, reliability, and security without requiring regular human intervention. At the core of the platform is Fabric Super-Agent, an AI-driven control layer that lets network teams design, deploy, and operate infrastructure using natural language. It can be accessed through tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and the Equinix customer portal and abstracts complex configuration tasks and provides automated recommendations, configuration support, and live performance insights. According to Equinix, these agent-based workflows can reduce network deployment timelines from weeks to minutes by automating configuration, optimization, and maintenance tasks. Fabric Intelligence also includes a set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that allow AI development tools to interface directly with network operations. The MCP components are designed to simplify how AI systems connect to high-performance, low-latency networks. They work with developer environments like ClaudeCode, OpenAI Codex, VS Code Copilot, and Cursor. Another component, Fabric Application Connect, functions as a private, dedicated connectivity marketplace for AI services. It lets enterprises access inference, training, storage, and security providers over private connections, bypassing the public Internet and limiting data exposure during AI development and deployment. Operational visibility is provided through Fabric Insights, an AI-powered monitoring layer that analyzes real-time network telemetry to detect anomalies and predict potential issues before they impact workloads. Fabric Insights integrates with security information and event management (SIEM) platforms such as Splunk and Datadog and feeds data directly into Fabric Super-Agent to support automated remediation. Fabric Intelligence operates on top of Equinix's global infrastructure footprint, which includes hundreds of data centers across dozens of metropolitan markets. The platform is positioned as part of Equinix Fabric, a connectivity portfolio used by thousands of customers worldwide to link cloud providers, enterprises, and network services. Network World smart answers. From our editors straight to your inbox. Get started by entering your email address below. Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist based in southern California who has covered the computer industry for 20 years and has built every x86 PC he's ever owned, laptops not included. Andy writes the Data Center Explorer blog for Network World. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Tom's Guide, Wired, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Tech Target, Business Insider, and Data Center Knowledge. Earlier in his career, he held editorial positions at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek. Andy holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Rhode Island.