Principal Cloud Network Architect - Active UK Government Security Clearance

• Principal Cloud Network Architect - Active UK Government Security Clearance Required

Location: UK - Hybrid / customer-site requirements TBC

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Package: £85,000 - £95,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits

About Appvia

Appvia is a specialist cloud, platform, and solutions engineering consultancy, helping organisations modernise infrastructure, improve reliability, and adopt cloud-native practices that enable long-term, sustainable delivery.

Our engineering capability spans AWS, Azure, platform engineering, networking, software, data, AI, delivery, and managed services.

We work across complex, high-impact environments in both the public and private sector, delivering solutions where security, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence are critical.

About the Role

We're hiring a Principal Cloud Networking Architect to join Appvia on a new secure public sector engagement, providing technical leadership across complex cloud, hybrid, and enterprise networking environments.

This is an architecture-led role for someone who can own technical direction, translate complex requirements into practical network solutions, and provide assurance across design and delivery.

You'll work across AWS cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, secure landing zones, network architecture, and technical governance, acting as a trusted technical authority for Appvia and our customer.

While the initial engagement has a strong networking and live-service focus, you'll also sit within Appvia's wider cloud and platform engineering capability, with opportunities to influence architecture and engineering standards across future programmes.

Interview Process - 3 Stage

1. Discovery conversation with Talent Acquisition
2. Technical & Architecture Interview with Engineering Team
3. Final Interview with Leadership

Important

You must hold active UK Security Clearance (SC).

NPPV3 clearance is highly desirable.

About You

You are a senior cloud and network architect with the technical depth to operate across both enterprise networking and modern cloud environments.

You will bring:

• Strong experience owning cloud and network architecture across complex enterprise environments
• Deep AWS networking knowledge across secure, scalable, and highly available architectures
• Experience designing hybrid cloud connectivity and multi-account network environments
• Strong understanding of enterprise routing, network segmentation, security, and resilience
• Experience designing cloud landing zones and their associated networking architecture
• Strong understanding of network and cloud security principles
• Experience producing and reviewing architecture documentation and technical designs
• Confidence operating within Technical Design Authority or architectural governance processes
• Ability to evaluate designs against security, operational, and regulatory requirements
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly
• Experience working in regulated, enterprise, or public sector environments
• Active UK SC clearance

Responsibilities

• Own cloud and network architecture across complex customer environments
• Define technical direction for secure, scalable, and resilient networking solutions
• Design AWS network architectures across multiple accounts, workloads, and environments
• Shape hybrid connectivity between cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Define networking patterns for cloud landing zones and platform environments
• Provide architectural leadership across routing, connectivity, segmentation, security, and resilience
• Produce and review high-level and detailed technical designs
• Provide technical assurance and governance across network and cloud changes
• Assess architectural decisions against security, operational, and regulatory requirements
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement
• Work closely with network engineers, platform engineers, security teams, service management, and customer architects
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior customer stakeholders
• Support and mentor engineers while raising architecture and engineering standards

Technical Skills

Core technologies / experience:

• AWS cloud networking
• VPC architecture
• Transit Gateway
• Direct Connect
• Route 53
• Hybrid cloud connectivity
• Multi-account AWS networking
• Enterprise routing and network architecture
• Network segmentation and security
• Secure cloud landing zones
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Architecture governance and assurance
• Technical Design Authority experience

Nice to have:

• AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional
• Wider AWS professional or specialty certifications
• Multi-cloud networking experience
• Cloud security architecture
• Enterprise and application integration architecture
• Infrastructure-as-code and network automation exposure
• CCNP / CCIE or equivalent networking certifications
• NPPV3 clearance