Senior Network Architect - UK Remote & Automation Lead

Eden Scott; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Eden Scott is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a highly automated networking estate. This remote UK role shapes strategy, architecture, and engineering standards while staying hands-on with cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive Infrastructure as Code adoption, self-service networking, and observability, mentoring multiple teams and advancing security, scale, and reliability across platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in senior network engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in enterprise networking and modern architectures.
• Strong hands-on automation and IaC background.

Responsibilities

• Define network architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Design scalable hybrid-cloud networking solutions.
• Build automated infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, APIs, and IaC
• Develop self-service networking capabilities
• Lead segmentation, security, and firewall strategy
• Improve resilience, performance, and scalability of critical infra
• Drive observability, telemetry, monitoring, and compliance
• Collaborate with engineering to improve platform reliability
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership
• Champion automation and AI-assisted engineering practices

Skills

BGP

OSPF

VLANs

VXLAN EVPN

Terraform

Ansible

APIs

Python

Go

PowerShell

Bash

Automation

AI-assisted engineering

Cloud networking

AWS

Azure

Observability

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

NetBox

Splunk

HashiCorp Consul

HAProxy Enterprise

Palo Alto Panorama

Job description

Eden Scott is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a highly automated networking estate. This remote UK role shapes strategy, architecture, and engineering standards while staying hands-on with cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive Infrastructure as Code adoption, self-service networking, and observability, mentoring multiple teams and advancing security, scale, and reliability across platforms.