Network Architect-Remote

Summary: The Network Architect role focuses on designing and delivering resilient network architectures for multi-location enterprises, ensuring high availability and performance. The position involves defining network security architecture and leading automation and observability efforts. Collaboration with various stakeholders is essential to produce architecture artifacts and maintain compliance. This role is remote and classified as outside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver resilient, scalable network architectures for multi-location enterprises (WAN/SD-WAN, MPLS, VPN, WAN optimization, campdata center, cloud/network interconnects), ensuring high availability, performance, and seamless connectivity between offices, data centers, and cloud providers.
• Define and enforce network security architecture and controls (firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC, micro-segmentation, segmentation gateways, Zero Trust network models), integrating with SIEM/DR, IAM, and endpoint tooling to meet requirements of major frameworks and regulations (NIST CSFISO 27001, CIS Controls, PCI, SOC2, GDPR).
• Lead network automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring and observability (telemetry, SNMP/NetFlow/IPFIX, synthetic testing), capacity planning, and change control to enable repeatable deployments, rapid troubleshooting, and measurable SLAs across distributed locations.
• Partner with security, cloud, application, and operations stakeholders to produce architecture artifacts, run migrations and PoCs, manage vendor/partner relationships, and provide governance, standards, and operational runbooks to maintain compliance and continuous improvement.

Key Skills:

• Experience in designing and delivering network architectures for multi-location enterprises.
• Strong knowledge of network security architecture and controls.
• Proficiency in network automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to collaborate with various stakeholders and manage vendor relationships.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and regulations.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT