Network Team Lead - Hybrid - £150,000 base - London
I'm supporting a leading quantitative technology firm that's looking to appoint a Network Team Lead to take ownership of the performance, reliability and operational maturity of its network environment.
This is a hands-on technical leadership position for someone who can combine deep network engineering expertise with a strong focus on automation, observability and operational excellence.
The role
You'll lead the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of network infrastructure across datacentre, WAN and campus environments.
Alongside providing technical leadership to the network function, you'll drive a more automated and proactive approach to network operations — reducing manual intervention, improving observability and ensuring the environment remains highly available, resilient and secure.
Key responsibilities
🔴 Lead the operational performance, stability and availability of the network environment
🔴 Provide technical leadership across network operations and incident response
🔴 Lead the investigation and resolution of critical network incidents
🔴 Drive automation using Python, Ansible and Infrastructure as Code
🔴 Improve network monitoring, telemetry, alerting and observability
🔴 Develop operational tooling, runbooks and incident response processes
🔴 Work closely with Network Security and Infrastructure Engineering teams
🔴 Support network architecture, upgrades, capacity planning and performance optimisation
🔴 Identify recurring issues and drive long-term technical improvements
What we're looking for
🔴 Strong hands-on network engineering experience within enterprise or large-scale environments
🔴 Experience across datacentre, WAN and campus networking
🔴 Strong Cisco or Arista experience
🔴 Excellent understanding of L2/L3 networking, BGP and EVPN-VXLAN
🔴 Experience with network security infrastructure including firewalls, load balancers and proxies
🔴 Experience with Python, Ansible or similar automation tooling
🔴 Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD
🔴 Experience with network observability and monitoring
🔴 Strong incident management and troubleshooting capability
🔴 Previous experience leading engineers, projects or a technical function
What's on offer
🔴 Highly competitive salary + discretionary annual bonus
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Network Engineer or existing Network Lead who wants to take ownership of a sophisticated network environment while helping shape the way network engineering is delivered through automation, observability and modern infrastructure practices.
Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.