IT Network Architect - Law Firm

Skills & Experience:

• The role will be split 50/50% between project and BAU work. Key project - Zero Trust Network & Cisco Ise.
• Proven experience in selecting, designing and overseeing the deployment of traditional LAN, WAN, and WLAN solutions.
• Architectural experience of product life cycle delivery, owning the design from strategy through to execution.
• Proven experience of datacentre network design including leveraging top of rack, end of row, core and edge switch deployments as well as working with converged infrastructure and software defined networking technology.
• Experience with working with MPLS WAN Networks, SD-WAN including Microsoft ExpressRoute, vWAN and Direct Access.
• Hands on and design experience of Azure VNET's, VNET Peering, NSG's and VNET Gateways.
• Experience with deploying network appliances to Azure as well as Azure network functions like Azure Traffic Manager.
• Experience with designing and deploying Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) in branch offices.
• Network security experience in strategies, processes, and technologies designed to protect a company's network from unauthorized access and harm.
• Experience in global Firewall, network load balancer and WAN Optimizer strategy and design.
• Advise the CTO/Lead Infrastructure Architect and the rest of the IT Leadership team on network and comms technology and supplier recommendations to help the firm meet its IT strategy.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation as artefacts that relate to network topology, architectural designs, patterns, principles and standards and technology selection.

Responsibilities:

• Experience working on architectural projects, ideally with Zero Trust Networks & Cisco Ise.
• Experience with on-prem Cisco technologies and Cloud technologies (NAC, Cisco Ise)
• Candidate must have network certifications, CCNP minimum.
• Key Technology stack - NAC, Cisco Ise, Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco Meraki, Nexus Switching, Express Route, Azure, HLD/LLD, MPLS WAN, SD-WAN, VNET's, VNET Gateways, Azure Traffic Manager

This role offers hybrid working - 3 days WFH.