Senior Network Architect - Fortinet & SD-WAN Lead

Wanstor; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch & Learn sessions

5 paid development days per year

2 paid volunteer days annually

Team social events

Job summary

Wanstor is seeking a Network Architect to lead secure, resilient networking projects and shape customer solutions. You will escort ideas from initial conversations through design and hands-on delivery, with opportunities to broaden Fortinet, SD-WAN and related technologies.

As a senior member of the Networking team, you will influence technical decisions, support presales, and guide fellow engineers while enjoying a flexible, hybrid work setup with occasional customer-site or London office

Qualifications

• Strong networking experience across LAN/WAN/wireless and network security.
• Experience with enterprise firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco or Sophos) and willingness to develop FortiGate expertise.
• Experience designing and delivering network solutions within customer environments.
• Hands-on design, implementation and problem-solving capability.
• Experience leading or owning complex networking projects.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build customer relationships.
• Interest in modern networking technologies including SD-WAN and security.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable network solutions across customer and internal environments.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of complex networking projects.
• Produce high and low-level designs, technical docs and implementation plans.
• Act as senior technical lead throughout project delivery to ensure high standards.
• Design, implement and optimize LAN, WAN, SD-WAN and wireless networks.
• Work with Fortinet and other leading vendors.
• Contribute to network security, resilience and performance improvements.
• Research emerging technologies to shape the networking practice.

Skills

Networking expertise

Enterprise firewalls

Network design & delivery

Hands-on problem solving

Project leadership

Communication skills

Modern networking tech

Tools

Fortinet

Palo Alto

Cisco

Sophos

FortiGate

Job description

Wanstor is seeking a Network Architect to lead secure, resilient networking projects and shape customer solutions. You will escort ideas from initial conversations through design and hands-on delivery, with opportunities to broaden Fortinet, SD-WAN and related technologies.

As a senior member of the Networking team, you will influence technical decisions, support presales, and guide fellow engineers while enjoying a flexible, hybrid work setup with occasional customer-site or London office