You are responsible for a backbone infrastructure initiative that spans core routing, switching, out-of-band management, and telemetry systems. The environment supports latency-sensitive internal platforms, and recent growth has increased the blast radius of configuration drift, inconsistent hardening, and weak change controls across backbone components. You want a clear execution approach that keeps the network secure and compliant without creating operational fragility or slowing delivery.
How do you ensure security, compliance, and reliability across backbone components?