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
We’re hiring a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to join Appvia on a new secure public sector engagement, supporting and evolving critical network infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments. This is a senior, hands-on role combining live service and operational support with network design, technical change, automation, and continuous improvement.
🏢 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.
🎯 The Role
This is a senior, hands-on role combining live service and operational support with network design, technical change, automation, and continuous improvement. You’ll take ownership of more complex networking challenges, helping shape solutions from requirements and design through to implementation and ongoing operation.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, support, and improve secure network infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments
Own complex network incidents, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
Lead planned network changes, upgrades, migrations, and optimisation activities
Design and support routing, switching, firewalling, VPN, and load-balancing solutions
Support resilient connectivity across hybrid cloud and data-centre environments
Use automation and infrastructure-as-code to improve repeatability and operational efficiency
Contribute to high-level and low-level network designs and technical documentation
Monitor and improve network availability, performance, resilience, and security
Identify opportunities to simplify legacy network solutions and reduce operational risk
Work closely with engineering, service management, architecture, and customer teams
Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers
📌 Required Qualifications
Strong experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise network environments
Deep understanding of routing and switching, including BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, and VRFs
Strong Cisco networking experience, ideally including ACI / Nexus
Experience designing and operating cloud networking environments
Strong understanding of network security, firewalls, VPNs, and secure connectivity
Experience troubleshooting complex production networking issues and leading root-cause analysis
Infrastructure-as-code and network automation experience
Experience working in live service, operational, or managed-service environments
Confidence producing and reviewing network designs and technical documentation
Strong stakeholder communication and consulting skills
⚖️ Work-life balance Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays An additional day off for your birthday Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents
💚 For your well-being Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50% Death in Service Cycle to Work scheme Electric Car Scheme Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings Employee Assistance Programme Free hygiene products available
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
You must hold active UK Security Clearance (SC). NPPV3 clearance is highly desirable.
