Network Engineering Consultant

We are looking for a Principal Network Architect to act as a senior technical leader, trusted advisor, and design authority across complex network transformation programmes.

This is a highly client-facing role, combining architecture, consultancy, pre-sales, and technical leadership. You will help shape secure, scalable, and resilient network solutions across enterprise environments, working from early-stage design through to delivery oversight. What you will be doing:

• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and senior stakeholders
• Leading the design of complex network and security architectures
• Shaping solutions across LAN/WAN, wireless, SD-WAN, cloud, data centre, and security environments
• Supporting bids, tenders, and pre-sales activity
• Producing high-quality design documentation
• Providing technical leadership to delivery and engineering teams

• Proven background as a senior architect/design authority
• Strong client-facing, consultancy, and communication skills
• Experience with technical solution shaping, proposals, and presentations
• Deep knowledge of routing, switching, segmentation, security, and cloud networking
• Exposure to automation, orchestration, or infrastructure-as-code would be beneficial

Desirable certifications:

Candidates with any of the following would be particularly relevant:

• CCNP/CCIE
• JNCIP/JNCIE
• Fortinet NSE
• Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE
• Cisco Security certifications such as CCNP Security/CCIE Security
• Check Point CCSA/CCSE
• Cloud certifications across AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI
• ITIL, PRINCE2, AgilePM, or similar delivery/service management certifications