Senior Network Architect (Travels to Valencia, Spain)

Location: Remote in UK, with planned travel to Valencia, Spain.

Employment type: Contract, 12 months

Rate: £650-£670 per day, Inside IR35

About the role

A manufacturing plant is separating its network as it moves to a joint venture structure. We need a senior Network Architect to define how the network evolves to a standalone end state, while the original entity and approved shared services keep running on the same campus.

This is an advisory and design role, not a hands-on build. You’ll own the architecture analysis, documentation and stakeholder coordination. Implementation sits with the client's regional teams.

What you’ll do

- Assess the current-state environment and produce a dependency map
- Gather and validate requirements across security, network, application, manufacturing, regional operations and the JV
- Document architecture considerations for LAN, wireless, firewall, load balancing, extranet, segmentation, and compute and storage
- Define the JV / non-JV coexistence model, including permitted and prohibited connectivity paths
- Maintain a living register of assumptions, risks, decisions and dependencies
- Join architecture reviews and provide weekly status and governance updates
- Coordinate with European implementation teams

What you’ll bring

- Senior network architecture experience in large enterprise and manufacturing environments
- Candidate must be based in the UK.
- Strong Cisco switching and enterprise LAN architecture, with working knowledge of Cisco SDA
- Strong Palo Alto firewall and F5 load balancer architecture experience
- Hands-on experience implementing agent-based micro-segmentation
- Ability to factor Red Hat compute and NetApp storage dependencies into your designs
- Excellent stakeholder facilitation, documentation, diagramming and executive communication skills
- Comfortable working remotely across time zones and travelling internationally when approved

Nice to have

- JV separation, divestiture, extranet or complex network isolation experience

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