At Appvia, our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monito…
📋 Job Overview
Appvia is hiring a Principal Cloud Networking Architect to join 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.
🏢 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.
🎯 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.
✅ Key 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
📌 Required Qualifications
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
⭐ Desirable Experience
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
🎁 Benefits
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work Hybrid working
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
You must hold active UK Security Clearance (SC). NPPV3 clearance is highly desirable.
