Solution Architect – Networking & Security
5 days ago
Shoreham-by-Sea
• Own end-to-end technical design of multi-site networking and security projects from pre-sales and solution design through customer hand-over, • Configure, build, migrate and commission Cisco, Fortinet and adjacent platforms alongside delivery engineers, • Travel to customer sites across the UK for design workshops, kick-offs, surveys, installation, cabling and commissioning, • Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs, build documents, configuration templates, runbooks and as-built hand-over packs, • Translate customer requirements and commercial outcomes into deliverable architectures, • Review configurations, change records and build documents to ensure technical quality, • Lead and mentor delivery engineers and support certification development, • Act as senior technical escalation point during build, migration and cut-over phases, • Explain design decisions, progress, risks and trade-offs to customers and non-technical stakeholders, • Lead pre-sales solution design using Cisco and Fortinet expertise, • Help establish and improve team design and build standards, • Perform some planned out-of-hours work for change windows, • CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) as a minimum, • Hands‑on experience designing, configuring and deploying Fortinet platforms (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and the wider Security Fabric) in production environments, • Practical experience delivering SSE or SASE technologyStrong design and delivery experience on at least one major SD‑WAN platform, • Solid working knowledge of routing and switching, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, IPsec, QoS, DNS, DHCP and wireless, • Track record of delivering multi‑site network and security projects end to end, • Hands‑on, on‑site implementation experience, including UK travel and physical installation work, • Confident written and verbal communication, • Calm, methodical approach under pressure, • Full UK driving licence, • NSE 4 or higher preferred, • Fortinet NSE 6 or NSE 7 nice to have, • Wider Cisco specialisations, HP/Aruba or SonicWall, public cloud networking, ZTNA design, and technical standards/reference architecture experience nice to have Demonstrates expertise in end-to-end technical design and implementation of multi-site networking and security projects, with a strong focus on Cisco and Fortinet platforms. Capable of leading teams, mentoring engineers, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders. • CCNP Certification, • Fortinet Platform Deployment, • SD-WAN Design Experience, • Routing and Switching Knowledge, • Multi-Site Network Project Delivery, • Network Design, • Configuration Management, • Security Architecture, • SSE Technology Implementation, • BGP, • OSPF, • IPsec, • VLANs, • QoS, • DNS, • Written Communication, • Verbal Communication, • Methodical Approach, • Calm Under Pressure, • CCNP, • NSE 4, • NSE 6, • NSE 7, • Multi-Site Networking, • Security Projects, • Technical Standards, • Reference Architecture, • Change Management, • Cisco, • Fortinet, • FortiGate, • FortiManager, • FortiAnalyzer, • HP/Aruba, • SonicWall, • Public Cloud Networking, • ZTNA Design #J-18808-Ljbffr