Principal Network Architect - Europe
💼 The Scoop on the Role:
This role involves closely collaborating with stakeholders to design, deploy, maintain, and monitor live services and the underlying network infrastructure. As a Principal Network Architect, you'll focus on architecting, deploying, and operating cloud-based GRC and HRIS services and SaaS products ensuring the security and connectivity of critical operations processes.
The role's areas of focus:
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the creation of advanced network architectures and designs within a team of technical leads.
- Technology Evaluation: Proactively evaluate and assess new networking technologies to enhance infrastructure capabilities.
- Technical Standards: Develop technical solutions and establish standards, policies, and procedures for network infrastructure.
- Infrastructure Management: Manage cloud network resources, application flows, and security elements as code, integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Automation: Automate workloads using a variety of tools and services, including native command line tools like Microsoft Azure and AWS.
- Security Compliance: Apply a risk-based approach to implementing security policies to ensure GDPR and InfoSec compliance.
- Security Collaboration: Collaborate with the security team to implement best practices for cloud network security.
- Agile Participation: Engage in Agile Scrum standups with platform and development teams, supporting software deployment to secure cloud networks.
- Monitoring Solutions: Implement monitoring solutions for network infrastructure and services across multiple clouds, utilising open-source dashboarding technologies like Graphana.
- Vendor Management: Act as the primary interface to third-party network and security vendors on behalf of Grouper .
📈What We're Looking For: Network Architect Ninja! Are you ready to dive into a role that demands technical mastery and strategic flair? We're seeking someone with:
- Experience or Certification: Possess experience or certification in one of the following: Azure Web Application Firewall, Checkpoint Next Generation Firewall, NGINX/F5 API Management & NGINX App Protect Web Application Firewall.
- IT Governance and Compliance: Experience with IT governance standards and compliance frameworks such as ITIL, PCI, and SOC.
- Network Architecture: Extensive experience in architecting networks to enable a flexible and secure environment for operating and maintaining a fleet of Microservice APIs.
- Scripting Skills: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Ansible, Azure DevOps, or Terraform for automating routine tasks.
- Tool Proficiency: Experience with Atlassian JIRA, Bitbucket, and Confluence for project management, version control, and documentation.
- Linux Shell Scripting: Proficiency in Linux shell scripting for automation and system administration tasks.
- Git Repository Management: Experience in working with git repositories for version control and collaborative development.
- Communication Skills: Strong documentation, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential for effective collaboration.
- Load Balancer Design: Extensive experience with standard load balancer design, SSL termination, and overall application/solution design.
- Certifications: Desired certifications or equivalent experience in disciplines such as CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE, CISSP, or other relevant security certifications.
- Advanced Traffic Management: Demonstrated knowledge of advanced layer 4 to 7 traffic management, including authentication and authorization flows, JWT/OIDC, and integration with 3rd party identity providers.
🎲 The Perfect Match: If you possess some of these skills, Grouper is excited to hear from you!
- Certified MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure is like finding gold at the end of the rainbow!
- Someone who gets things done, but puts security first.
- University degree:. Advanced degree preferred for that extra sparkle!
- Experience working in