# Senior Cloud Network Architect

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior Cloud Network Architect at WSP, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, standardising, and delivering secure, scalable Azure networking solutions across Canada.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Defining, documenting, and governing Azure networking reference architectures, standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns.

- Providing architectural review and formal sign-off on Azure network designs.

- Architecting and maintaining global connectivity patterns and cloud connectivity services.

- Developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for cloud network provisioning.

- Integrating network provisioning into CI/CD workflows.

- Implementing automated baseline checks, compliance controls, and telemetry pipelines.

- Architecting hub-spoke and Virtual WAN architectures across Azure regions.

- Enabling secure external and internal routing patterns.

- Troubleshooting complex cloud and hybrid network issues.

- Establishing monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and security telemetry.

- Supporting incident response and change/release coordination.

- Validating resiliency, disaster recovery, and continuity plans.

- Driving continuous improvement through automation and standardisation.

- Collaborating with Security, Identity, and Platform Architecture teams.

- Mentoring engineers and contributing to roadmap development.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- 8–10+ years of hands-on network engineering and architecture experience.

- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure networking.

- Expert-level knowledge of BGP, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, SD-WAN, VPN/IPSec, IPv4/IPv6.

- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code and automated network deployment pipelines.

- Extensive experience with DevOps automation and CI/CD best practices.

- Experience participating in architecture governance and review forums.

- Strong written communication skills.

- Ability to operate independently and collaborate across globally distributed teams.

- Demonstrated knowledge of information security practices.

Preferred skills include experience managing multi-region Azure environments, working with third-party vendor development teams, and exposure to FinOps and cost-optimisation in cloud automation.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Azure networking
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- DevOps automation
- CI/CD best practices
- BGP
- OSPF
- DNS
- DHCP
- SD-WAN
- VPN/IPSec
- IPv4/IPv6

### Nice to have
- Experience managing multi-region Azure environments
- Working with third-party vendor development teams
- FinOps and cost-optimisation in cloud automation

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