Solution Architect

We're expanding to deliver a wave of customer network transformations. The TDA is our post-sales technical lead and trusted advisor, responsible for shaping and delivering robust designs, guiding customers through SD-WAN and SASE adoption, and ensuring implementations land cleanly into service., What you'll do

• Own solution design: Produce high-quality High-Level and Low-Level Designs for SDWAN, Secure SD-Branch and SASE, integrating NGFW, ZTNA, and Cloud-connect, aligned to customer outcomes and delivery constraints.

• Lead delivery technically: Act as Design Authority across project phases, providing technical governance, standards, and 'go/no-go' on design changes; assure quality of build, test and service transition artefacts.

• Be the trusted advisor: Run customer workshops, translate business drivers into technical decisions, challenge assumptions, and guide stakeholders through risk/benefit trade-offs for transformation programmes.

• Close the loop with pre-sales: Review RFPs/RFIs and proposed architectures, contributing design options, scope assumptions, and delivery estimates that can be sold and delivered on time and within budget.

• Harden security posture: Define and validate SASE/Zero-Trust policies, ZTNA access models, identity-aware segmentation, and secure site templates; align with Nasstar security frameworks and customer policies.

• Operational handover: Ensure designs are operable: documentation, config standards, test plans, knowledge transfer and run-books to transition smoothly into support.

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• Track record delivering multi-site SD-WAN/SASE transformations as the lead designer/authority.

• Evidenced 'trusted advisor' relationships with enterprise or public-sector customers.

• Hands-on with Fortinet SD-WAN/SASE/ ZTNA in production, including policy design and troubleshooting.

• Comfortable guiding engineers and challenging scope/assumptions to keep delivery on track., Core technical skills

• Fortinet SD-WAN & SASE: FortiGate (physical/VM), FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer, SD-WAN overlays, performance-based routing, segmentation; SASE policy definition; ZTNA (client and gateway).

• Routing & overlays: BGP, OSPF, IPsec, GRE; dual-underlay/dual-hub; DIA/MPLS migrations.

• Firewalling & security: NGFW policies, IDS/IPS, SSL inspection, cert chains and device PKI hygiene; Zero-Trust principles and identity-aware access.

• LAN/WAN & Wi-Fi: Campus/branch designs, SD-Branch, switching/wireless patterns and site standards.

• Cloud & edge: Private DC, interconnect, cloud on-ramps; design guardrails for resilience and failover.

Professional skills

• Customer-centric communicator who can translate business constraints into clear technical decisions and articulate risk/impact in plain English.

• Pragmatic, delivery-minded: balances 'strategic ideal' vs. 'tactical path' to meet timelines and budgets.

• Comfortable chairing design workshops and Design Authority forums, documenting outcomes and holding teams to standards

Nice to have

• Operational Technology (OT) Security: Exposure to OT network segmentation, asset zoning (ISA/IEC 62443 concepts), secure remote access for plant or retail edge, and constrained-environment change practices.

• Broader vendor familiarity (Cisco/Meraki/Juniper) to read/critique designs and handle heterogeneous estates.

Certifications (preferred)

• Fortinet NSE 4-7 (or progress toward).

• Cisco/Juniper routing certs helpful (CCNP, JNCIS/JNCIP).

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At Nasstar, we know the importance of looking after our employees - after all, it's the team that underpins our business!

In addition to a competitive salary, supportive teams, and a real opportunity to progress in your career with a forward-thinking organisation, our benefits package includes:

• 25 days' holiday (excluding bank holidays) + Your Birthday Off
• Flexible working - it's important to maintain a work/life balance, as such, we will consider any written request for flexible working
• Virtual working - we practice what we preach and empower our people to work remotely
• Top tech - Leading services and solutions aren't just for our clients; we supply best-of-breed software and hardware for all our staff too
• 4x annual salary life assurance
• Health cash plan
• Retail discounts and other perks from major brands

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