Network Architect
Posted 4 days ago by Network IT
£600 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Milton Keynes
Summary: The Network Architect role involves supporting a major government body in delivering and managing national security capabilities. The position requires collaboration with customers and engineering teams while maintaining essential business relationships to ensure national security. The architect will provide technical inputs and governance, focusing on networking architecture and security compliance. SC Clearance is required for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the delivery and management of national security capabilities.
- Collaborate with customers, engineering, and development teams.
- Maintain key business relationships within government and capability.
- Provide technical inputs and governance.
- Create technical and architectural documents, including options assessments and designs.
- Manage requirements and ownership of deliverables.
- Ensure compliance with auditing and security product configurations.
Key Skills:
- Excellent people skills and ability to explain technical complexity.
- Experience in enterprise and virtual environments within secure settings.
- Networking architecture expertise, including topology, wireless, firewalls, and load balancing.
- Experience with VPN configuration and public cloud connectivity.
- Knowledge of NCSC, GDS, CIS, Cyber Essentials, and NIST IT security principles.
- Experience in UK government technology strategies and policies.
- IT Technical qualifications or equivalent experience.
- TOGAF or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of public cloud offerings.
Salary (Rate): £600/day
City: Milton Keynes
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Network Architect / Technical Architect / Milton Keynes / 6 Month Contract / Inside IR35 / £600 / SC Clearance / Security Cleared
An architect is required to support a major government body with the delivery and management of key national security capabilities.Working with customers, engineering and development teams to support the solution as well as maintaining key business relationships within government and capability ensuring the security of the nation.Providing key technical inputs and governance.
Skills
- Excellent people skills and an ability to explain and understand technical complexity.
- Experience in relevant roles, including technologies in enterprise and virtual environments and of working within a secure environments.
- Experience of networking architecture
- Network Topology and configuration
- Wireless network architecture
- Firewalls
- Network load balancing
- Inter/intra site connectivity
- Virtual private network configuration
- Public could connectivity
- Experience creating technical and architectural documents such as options assessments, low and high-level technical designs.
- Experience of requirements management and ownership of deliverables.
- Working knowledge of auditing and security products configuration.
- A comprehensive understanding of NCSC, GDS, CIS, Cyber Essentials, and NIST IT security principles, along with experience in UK government technology strategies and policies.
Desirable (in no priority order)
- Worked in a matrix organisation structure.
- IT Technical qualifications or equivalent experience
- TOGAF or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of Public cloud offerings