Lead Network Architect — Office-Based, £80k-£90k

entanet; Telford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Flexible working arrangements

Generous holiday allowance

Job summary

Entanet is seeking an experienced Network Architect to own the architecture, design and documentation of our ISP network as we stand up as an independent B2B aggregation network.

You will lead a small team, drive TSA migration workstreams, IP resource migration, and network re-platforming across multiple sites, with a focus on robust, well-documented designs.

The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on engineering and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Right to work in the UK.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Lead TSA migrations workstreams to establish Entanet as an independent network from CityFibre.
• Lead RIPE LIR and database administration, and IP resource migration.
• Lead IPAM replacement and migration from CityFibre’s NetBox.
• Lead colocation, backhaul and network equipment rationalisation across 27 sites.
• Lead architecture to separate Entanet’s eBGP and separation from CityFibre’s network.
• Design and document network topology, IP addressing strategy and routing policy.

Skills

BGP

IS-IS

MPLS

IP transit

IP addressing

Routing policy

HLD/LLD

Network design

Automation APIs

Documentation

Tools

NetBox

RIPE Database

NMS

Job description

Entanet is seeking an experienced Network Architect to own the architecture, design and documentation of our ISP network as we stand up as an independent B2B aggregation network.

You will lead a small team, drive TSA migration workstreams, IP resource migration, and network re-platforming across multiple sites, with a focus on robust, well-documented designs.

The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on engineering and cross-functional collaboration.