Senior Network Solution Design Engineer

The Role: Senior Network Solution Design Engineer Location: Sheffield, UK Position Type: Contract Inside IR35 Remote work option Available: Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite Job Description: The Senior Network Solution Design Engineer is responsible for design of network architectures that support hybrid-cloud platforms, spanning public and private cloud environments, at large enterprise scale. The role blends deep data-center networking fundamentals with cloud-native and private-cloud networking expertise, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and automation-ready. Working closely with product owners, platform, cloud, security, and application teams, this role translates complex requirements into clear, repeatable network designs and engineering solutions that can be safely deployed and operated across the enterprise. This is a hands-on engineering role - the individual is expected not only to design solutions, but also to validate, prototype, and help to build them. Key Responsibilities: Deliver network solution designs supporting enterprise data centers, private cloud platforms, and public cloud environments Build, prototype, and validate network solution designs through hands-on engineering, lab environments, proofs of concept, and automation-driven implementations Define and evolve reference architectures, standards, and design patterns for hybrid-cloud and cloud-native networking Embed automation and Infrastructure as Code principles into network solution designs ..... full job details .....