​Senior Network Solution Design Engineer

Contract

Sheffield/Hybrid

We're looking for a Senior Network Solution Design Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure, and resilient hybrid-cloud network solutions across enterprise data centres, private cloud, and public cloud environments. This is a hands-on role involving solution design, prototyping, validation, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise network solutions for hybrid-cloud environments.

• Develop reference architectures and network design standards.

• Build and validate solutions through PoCs and lab environments.

• Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and application teams.

• Drive network automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  

Key Skills

• Strong enterprise networking experience (routing, switching, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, segmentation).

• Hybrid cloud networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Kubernetes networking (Cilium, Calico, OVN-K).

• Cloud connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Equinix Fabric, Megaport).

• Cisco ACI, Arista, or Juniper networking.

• Automation with Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python, or Go.

• Experience with Linux and network observability tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, or Kentik.