About the job you’re considering
Capgemini Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) UK has the largest Projects & Consulting (P&C) practice in CIS globally - covering all the CIS portfolio. We work on a range of exciting projects for many different clients across all sectors. The role of the Network Architect operates within the Cloud & Datacentre capability, focusing on building, migrating, and testing modern network services and solutions.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Your role
This is a varied role requiring a broad range of advanced network skills including:
* Design technical solutions covering product selection for the key components of the network technology stack, including cloud services & connectivity, Software Defined network hardware/software, load balancers, firewalls, proxies and sizing.
* Provide ideas and innovation and maintain a view of emerging technologies that could enhance the Capgemini service offering for network propositions. Provide the overall network technical strategy and leadership for a client, project or bid.
* Review of client network infrastructures and propose options for improvements. Ability to work to deadlines and drive complex network proposals to conclusion.
* Taking information from customer and or project specifications and turning those into completed design definitions and leading the implementation of those changes for the project.
* Compliance with a stringent change management process, where levels of accuracy of proposed implementation activities will be subject to the fullest review and delivery must follow the agreed plan.
Your skills and experience
An expert-level working knowledge of IP, Ethernet, routing and switching within LAN/WAN/Data Centre/ Public Cloud environments is essential. Practical and demonstrable experience of implementing Cisco ACI is also essential.
* Experience with any of the latest generation of networking technologies in addition to ACI is essential e.g:
* Software Defined Networks such as Cisco MSO (Multi Site Orchestrator), NAE (Network Assurance Engine), ACI Anywhere; SD WAN e.g. Cisco vManage; SD Access e.g. DNAC, APIC EM, Cisco ISE.
* Automation/Orchestration: Network stack integration, Terraform, Ansible, Python, JSON, APIs.
* Security products e.g. Firewalls: Cisco (+Firepower Threat Defense), FortiGate, Fortinet SD-WAN solution.
* VMware NSX and other NFV products.
* Tooling e.g. Cisco Tetration, Solarwinds, CA.
* Additional experience with load balancers, hardware proxy devices, IDS/AV, and Voice technologies would be desirable.
* Experience with key vendors, primarily Cisco (IOS, NX-OS, ACI) / F5 (LTM, GTM, ASM) / Bluecoat / Fortigate / Checkpoint, Azure, Amazon and Google Cloud plus other vendor experience is welcome and beneficial.
We are a Disability Confident Employer
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
* Declare they have a disability, and
* Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process.
Your security clearance and pre-employment checks
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and an unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
Benefits
You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us. We have trained Mental Health Champions across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
Learning for life mindset: countless training and development opportunities including 250,000 courses and external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and more.
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