Senior Network Solutions Architect

Do you enjoy shaping secure, resilient, and future-ready network and cloud architectures?
We’re looking for a Senior Network Solutions Architect to join our Technical Support Team, where you’ll lead the design and architecture of complex network and cloud solutions across enterprise environments. This role is hands-on, influential, and highly collaborative — you’ll work closely with engineering, security, service management and external partners to deliver robust, secure, and scalable technology outcomes.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
What you'll be doing:
Leading the production of secure and resilient network and cloud designs across connectivity, capacity, performance, recovery, and access.
Producing high- and low-level design documentation, build guides and implementation instructions.
Presenting designs to technical authorities and architecture review boards for approval.
Aligning solutions to industry best practice frameworks such as CIS Controls, NIST and secure-by-design principles.
Overseeing Network Engineers during implementation and ensuring solutions are delivered to specification.
Troubleshooting and collaborating with third-party suppliers and service providers.
Acting as a domain expert across current and emerging networking and cloud technologies.
What you’ll bring:
Hands-on experience with Cisco, Meraki, Palo Alto (PANS) and firewall / security services.
Proven Cloud Infrastructure experience (AWS and Azure).
Strong knowledge of Azure networking including Virtual WAN, firewalling, load balancing and application gateways.
Experience across Microsoft 365 and Microsoft on-premise technologies such as Azure Active Directory, Role Based Access Control or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
Solid understanding of secure network design principles.
Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary delivery and operations teams.
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time Permanent.
Location: UK Wide
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Annecia
Salary: Up to £75,000 dependent on experience
Benefits: , £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

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Senior Network Solutions Architect

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