Cloud Network Architect

About Us

We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you!

About the Role

Are you passionate about helping clients solve their business problems using Public Cloud?

Are you looking for real ownership on projects and to get under the skin of clients’ biggest areas to support?

We’re looking for talented Cloud Network Architects who want to take the next step in their career and join our Cloud Centre of Excellence team.

As a BJSS Cloud Network Architect you’ll lead by example and demonstrate the art of the possible.

You’ll be a technical authority at the centre of our engagements, managing technical risk and creating real business value.

You’ll be willing to be hands-on when you need to be and seek to balance innovation and intellectual rigour with realism.

You will work with a talented, innovative and creative cloud team to make the right cloud technology choices for our clients and will also draw on your creative talent to contribute to our cloud accelerators.

You will work with some of the biggest companies in the UK and help them shape their Cloud architecture and shape our future Cloud roadmap. This involves telling compelling stories about the case for change, defining the goals and objectives as well as selecting the strategies to meet those objectives, including a supporting business case.

BJSS Cloud Network Architects are thought leaders, keen to share their thoughts on the latest trends either digitally or in person. They are trusted advisors at the C-suite level adept at using their knowledge to ensure our clients maximise their use of technology.

About You

You’ll bring extensive experience gained through a combination of industry and consulting roles. You will be comfortable developing and strengthening peer-to-peer level relationships at all levels with our clients.

You’ll have the following experience:

• Agile (Scrum & Sprint-based) development and delivery
• Experience with designing and implementing scalable, secure, and robust network architectures in both traditional and cloud environments. You should have the ability to incorporate and adapt to any number of networking vendors and be able to make best use of cloud native technologies
• Experience of business development activities and developing client accounts
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Strong record of leadership
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Comfortable working effectively with people at all levels in an organisation
• Adept at communicating complex ideas effectively
• Outstanding managerial or professional achievements
• You have the expertise and confidence to work with a range of partners across diverse business and technology communities
• You have energy and a pragmatic delivery-focused attitude that wins the respect of those around you and makes you a trusted technical advisor
• You love technology and want to keep on learning. You’re genuinely interested in understanding the challenges your users face and how you can help them.

Technical Skills Required:

• Have attained some of the following certifications or similar:
  • AWS Certified: Advanced Networking – Specialty
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Professional (JNCIP)
• The ability to implement your designs through code, so it's important to have In-depth understanding of one or more IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM or Bicep.
• Understanding of AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Containers, Infrastructure as Code
• Networking Protocols and Services: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/HTTPS, BGP, OSPF, etc.
• Understanding of Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Multi Cloud networking
• Understanding of DevOps practices and their application in network management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions).
• Understanding of Zero Trust Security, High Availability Content Delivery

Some of the Perks

• Flexible benefits allowance – you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more)
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and other
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH
• Discounts – we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Training opportunities and incentives – we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• Giving back – the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join– quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get togethers
• GymFlex gym membership programme

Please note: any applicants must be able to gain valid SC clearance.