The Role
You will be responsible for assessing an existing network environment, validating infrastructure configurations and building a comprehensive understanding of network connectivity, traffic flows, security boundaries and service dependencies.
This is a hands-on technical role requiring strong networking expertise, investigative skills and the ability to engage with stakeholders across infrastructure, cloud and security teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct technical discovery across enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, remote access and Azure/hybrid cloud environments.
- Review and validate existing network documentation, configurations, inventories and architecture diagrams against live infrastructure.
- Map physical and logical network topologies, including routing, switching, VLANs, subnets, IP addressing and connectivity.
- Investigate network traffic flows, Firewall rules, security zones and application dependencies across on-premise and cloud environments.
- Utilise network diagnostic tools, configuration data, routing tables and traffic analysis to identify undocumented infrastructure and inconsistencies.
- Work closely with network, cloud, security and application teams to validate findings and produce accurate technical documentation and recommendations.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on enterprise networking experience, including LAN, WAN, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs and network security.
- Experience conducting network discovery, infrastructure assessments, technical audits and network documentation.
- Strong Azure networking knowledge, including VNets, peering, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, VPN connectivity and hybrid networking.
- Experience documenting physical and logical network architectures, including VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, DNS, DHCP, NAT and IP address management.
- Good understanding of network traffic flows, security boundaries, Firewall policies and application/service dependencies.
- Experience using network diagnostic and discovery tools to investigate configurations, routing, connectivity and network behaviour.
- Strong technical documentation skills, including producing network diagrams, infrastructure reports and recommendations.
Desirable
- Experience with Wireshark, Azure Network Watcher, IPAM and CMDB platforms.
- Knowledge of network resilience, redundancy, failover and disaster recovery.
- Experience working within complex public sector or highly regulated environments.
- Experience facilitating technical discovery workshops and engaging senior infrastructure stakeholders.
The Details
Contract: 3 months
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Rate: £500-£550
Location: Remote
Rate:
£550/day
Location:
London
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior