Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year Requirements: Strong expertise in firewalls, WAFs, proxying, micro-segmentation, network monitoring, and packet inspection. Experience designing network topologies including hub-and-spoke, mesh, private endpoints, and SD-WAN. Familiarity with network security and resilience certifications, compliance, and best practice frameworks. Responsibilities: Design network architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, ensuring secure connectivity and operational stability. Define firewall rulesets, segmentation patterns, and isolation design across multiple zones. Enable containment strategies to support cyber resilience, including rapid isolation, controlled recovery, and blast-radius reduction. Oversee routing, load balancing, VPN/ExpressRoute, and secure edge patterns. Validate network changes through governance, assurance, and architectural review. Collaborate with Security, Identity, and Infrastructure teams to ensure network designs align with Zero Trust principles. Conduct capacity planning, performance optimisation, and telemetry integration. Technologies: Architect Cloud Firewall Support Load Balancing Network Security VPN More: We are seeking a Network Architect for a contract role in Knutsford, where we operate in a hybrid model with 3 days per week onsite. The Network Architect will play a critical role in the design and governance of secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across various environments. We offer a competitive rate of up to £543.45 per day, umbrella inside IR35. We appreciate your interest in joining our team and look forward to reviewing your application. last updated 10 week of 2026