Network Technical Lead

City of London

1 week ago

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Role Purpose
We're looking for an Engineering Lead to drive high‑quality, safe, and automated change into production environments. You'll provide hands‑on technical leadership, coach engineers, champion reliability and non‑functional requirements, and embed automation as a default mindset across the team.
Key ResponsibilitiesEngineering & Design Ownership

Own end‑to‑end design for non‑functional requirements, integration contracts, resilience patterns, and rollback strategies.
Define and maintain clear, testable runbooks and operational procedures.Change Excellence & Operational Readiness

Design and execute change rehearsals, smoke tests, soak tests, and rollback plans.
Ensure all changes meet the highest standards of safety, repeatability, and automation.Engineering Leadership

Lead code reviews for infrastructure‑as‑code and automated runbook workflows.
Champion SRE best practices including error budgets, reliability metrics, and reduction of operational toil.Continuous Improvement

Perform defect analytics and drive focused remediation sprints.
Continuously enhance standard change models and expand automation coverage.Must‑Have Skills & Experience

Strong background in networks and/or security, with hands‑on design, build, and operational experience across at least one major technology stack.
Practical experience with automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
Proven capability leading ITIL change processes and Major Incident Management (MIM), with a disciplined post‑incident review culture.
Excellent troubleshooting skills across multiple layers:
Network
Identity
Endpoint
Proxy
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