Network Architect (2 positions)

Sanderson Government and Defence are supporting a significant commercial partner of the UK government in their search for two Network Architects to join their Newcastle based team supporting a central government organisation.

We require individuals to be eligible for SC clearance for this role, however we can typically have people starting at a lower level of clearance, so there should be no additional delay in starting as a result of this.

The technical environment for this role is very broad, including Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto kit, as detailed below. We are happy to consider candidates with experience using other vendor’s equivalents.

• Cisco Routing and switching, inc. 8200/8300 routers, Nexus N7K/N9K
• Equivalent level in: Aruba switching AOS-S & CX, on Aruba 2930, 6300, 8300, 8400 CX10K platforms
• Palo Alto Firewalls, PAN-OS 10.x VPN Technologies on Cisco, Palo Alto plus Cloud platforms AWS/Azure Wireless LAN Architecture,
• Cisco/Aruba including Multizone, Aruba Central On-Prem General Network Protocols – OSPF, BGP, Spanning Tree, IPSec,
• VPN- VXLAN, NSX-T, NAC, ZTNA, VMWare/VxRail, Aruba Clearpass

We also required CCNP or an equivalent qualification.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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