Platform and Security

Cloud Network Architect

London

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.

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What life at BJSS is like

Big rewards

At BJSS, the rewards aren’t based on your time served, they’re based on merit and the strength of your contributions. In exchange for bringing your best ideas to the most challenging problems, you’ll be compensated with a competitive salary and the knowledge that you’ll be rewarded and recognized for giving it your all.

Be outstanding

We pride ourselves on the high quality of the work we deliver. Our culture is all about valuing and rewarding excellence, whether it’s the technical aspects of the job or the way you interact with clients and colleagues. If you join BJSS, it’ll be because you share that passion to excel, to do the very best job you can, and to support others to deliver outstanding results.

Benefits that suit you

Aside from the standard annual leave allowance, life assurance and pension, our flexible benefits allowance lets you decide which benefits you want, with options across industry-leading health and wellbeing, buying and selling annual leave, electric vehicle scheme, GymFlex gym membership, as well as discounts across dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands.

Bring your authentic self to work

We’ve built an environment where respect and inclusivity are paramount, where fantastic people of all kinds are free to be themselves and get on with doing a great job. And even though BJSS is a global business, each regional office is as distinct and idiosyncratic as the people in it – you can expect to be part of a unique, tight-knit community with a busy social calendar.

Make your mark

Clients trust us to get the hard things done. And if you join us, you’ll be faced with challenges only people like you have the drive to solve. You’ll be pushed out of your comfort zone, and you won’t be sitting on the sidelines, but you’ll also make a real difference on extraordinary projects.

Forge your own path

At BJSS, we don’t believe in job titles or hierarchies, so how you progress in the company is entirely down to you. You’ve got the flexibility and freedom to follow your interests and pursue your career goals - with full support, training opportunities and incentives from the business.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & DIVERSITY STATEMENT

BJSS is committed to equal opportunities and diversity so we want to ensure that our recruitment and selection processes are fair to all who wish to apply.

We encourage you to feel confident to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to the application or interview process to help support you. You can do this by speaking to your BJSS recruitment contact. Or, if you’re not yet in touch with anyone from our recruitment team.

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