About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong infrastructure architecture experience across hybrid cloud, on-premises platforms, Cato Networks, connectivity, security and service integration.
- Cato Network experience is essential.
- Knowledge or practical experience of Cato Networks, SASE, SD-WAN and Zero Trust Network Access is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services.
- Experience with datacentre and cloud connectivity, including cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-datacentre patterns.
- Ability to define high-level architecture, non-functional requirements, Proof of Concept scope, test success criteria and technical roadmaps.
- Awareness of architecture frameworks and governance; TOGAF and relevant Azure, AWS, Microsoft, networking or security certifications are useful but not essential.
- Knowledge of Agile delivery practices and the ability to work across discovery, design, delivery and service transition.
Responsibilities
- Provide Cato Network and infrastructure architecture technical direction across the Modernisation workstream.
- Support the design and delivery of cloud, network, data protection, cyber resilience and infrastructure modernisation initiatives, ensuring project-level solutions align with enterprise strategy, architecture principles, security requirements and operational standards.
- Guide technical options, analyse dependencies and risks, and translate Proof of Concept outcomes into recommendations, designs, roadmaps and deliverable work packages.
- Provide design authority and direction from discovery and Proof of Concept through detailed design, delivery, testing, transition and operational acceptance.
- Identify deviations from standards and manage them through the appropriate architecture governance process.
- Maintain a current understanding of cloud, network, cyber resilience, backup and infrastructure technologies and their strategic application.
- Provide architectural leadership for the C2C and C2DC Proof of Concept, including test scope, success criteria, technical dependencies, findings and recommendations for wider adoption.
- Support modernisation initiatives involving cloud platforms, Cato Networks, secure connectivity, Zero Trust Network Access and cyber resilience.
Technologies
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- Cloud
- Support
- Network
- Security
- TOGAF
- Web
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We are recruiting a Cato Cloud Network Architect for our Modernisation workstream. The role will initially support a Cato Cloud-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Datacentre proof of concept and wider connectivity transformation, alongside work involving Cato Networks and cloud technologies. The position is remote, with ad hoc travel to Reading, and is inside IR35 at £750–£900 per day.
last updated 44 week of 2026