- Substantial experience designing and delivering enterprise network architectures in complex, security-conscious environments, with strong knowledge of AWS networking services and patterns, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, load balancing, private endpoints and network security controls.
- Experience designing hybrid and multi-site connectivity, routing, switching, segmentation, firewalls, DNS, IP address management, load balancing and secure remote access. Detailed knowledge of physical network technology, ideally Cisco, NVIDIA and Mellanox, and in-depth understanding of Cisco Nexus Dashboard, data centre fabrics, Aruba networking infrastructure, BGP, OSPF, RoCE v2, performance optimisation and lifecycle management.
- Experience architecting highly available and resilient networks with clear recovery objectives, diverse connectivity and tested failover arrangements. Strong understanding of network security architecture, zero-trust principles, defence in depth, trust boundaries and secure connectivity to third parties.
- Experience designing networks for high-throughput, data-intensive or latency-sensitive workloads and diagnosing performance or capacity constraints. Good understanding of automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, observability and operational support for modern networks.
- Ability to translate business, security, operational and user needs into practical network designs, standards and delivery roadmaps, balancing strategic architectural direction with immediate delivery needs, legacy constraints and service continuity.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and building alignment across architecture, infrastructure, cloud, engineering, security, procurement, commercial, service management and delivery stakeholders. Strong stakeholder engagement and a collaborative approach that builds trust and supports effective decision-making.
- Experience documenting and communicating network architectures, traffic flows, options, risks and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, and providing architectural governance and assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Ability to identify where network architecture practices, standards or controls could be improved and to embed those improvements into regular use.
- Relevant professional certification, such as AWS Advanced Networking, AWS Solutions Architect, Cisco CCNP/CCIE or an equivalent qualification.
- Experience working in healthcare, genomics, research, government or another regulated environment handling sensitive data, and experience in procurement processes associated with network infrastructure in a UK government organisation.
- Experience with software-defined networking, SD-WAN, secure access service edge, network access control or zero-trust network access. Knowledge of AWS Network Firewall, Cloud WAN, VPC Lattice, Gateway Load Balancer and related network security or connectivity services.
- Experience designing connectivity for high-performance compute, large-scale storage, data transfer appliances or distributed data-processing environments, and integrating with NHS, government, academic, research or commercial partner networks.
- Knowledge of network telemetry and tooling, including flow logs, packet analysis, synthetic monitoring, performance analytics and security monitoring.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automation and policy as code for network services.
- Understanding of identity-aware networking, certificate services, encryption, proxies, web gateways and data-loss prevention controls.
- Experience contributing to architecture governance forums such as a Technical Design Authority, familiarity with enterprise architecture tools such as Abacus, and experience applying TOGAF or equivalent architecture practices.
If you’re an experienced Network Architect who enjoys solving complex connectivity and security challenges, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the secure, resilient networks spanning AWS, on-premises infrastructure and partner environments that support life-changing genomic healthcare and research at Genomics England.
Additional Information
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
- Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, plus additional leave for long service, and also the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
- Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
- Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), an Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a Give As You Earn scheme.
- Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
- Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
- Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.
Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.
Culture
We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England
Blended working model
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
Onboarding background checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
