Senior Network Architect (Contract) - Hybrid in London

Comgent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive freelance terms

Job summary

Zohorecruit seeks a Senior Network Architect for a freelance hybrid role in London. This position requires hands-on design and strategic thinking to converge legacy and ACI network environments within a major banking infrastructure transformation.

The candidate will engage with senior stakeholders, manage complex routing and data-centre designs, and shape secure, scalable networking across on-prem and cloud connectivity. Hybrid work and strong vendor coordination are essential.

Qualifications

• Must have deep Cisco networking expertise (Nexus 7K/5K/2K/9K, IOS, NX-OS).
• Strong working knowledge of Cisco ACI and target-state design for hybrid deployments.
• Expert-level routing and switching with OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and remediation of misconfigurations.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on senior architecture work with strategic and detailed engineering input.
• articulates complex technical problems to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with security, ICT vendors and business units to manage costs and architecture.

Skills

Cisco Nexus

Cisco IOS/NX-OS

Cisco ACI

Routing Protocols (OSPF/BGP/EIGRP)

Data centre design (spine-leaf)

Firewall architecture (Palo Alto/Cisco

WAN/MPLS concepts

IPAM/DNS/DHCP

SD-WAN & Cloud Networking

Network automation

Collaboration & stakeholder management

Tools

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Zohorecruit seeks a Senior Network Architect for a freelance hybrid role in London. This position requires hands-on design and strategic thinking to converge legacy and ACI network environments within a major banking infrastructure transformation.

The candidate will engage with senior stakeholders, manage complex routing and data-centre designs, and shape secure, scalable networking across on-prem and cloud connectivity. Hybrid work and strong vendor coordination are essential.