Lead Network Engineer

Overview

In this role you will be the technical authority for corporate and business-critical networks while leading a small team. You will maintain a highly available, live and time-critical infrastructure and balance hands-on engineering with people leadership. The role combines design, implementation and live-incident oversight, with a focus on multicast and real-time content delivery. You will partner with security, projects and operations to ensure resilient network performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical and design authority across corporate and business-critical networks
• Design, implement and operate resilient IP network infrastructure
• Own network performance, capacity, resilience and technical standards
• Lead complex troubleshooting across routing, switching and multicast environments
• Design and optimise multicast routing for real-time content delivery
• Support BAU, infrastructure projects and live-event requirements
• Lead and mentor three network engineers through coaching and 1-2-1s
• Act as senior escalation point for complex or high-risk network incidents
• Collaborate with engineering, project, security and other stakeholders
• Provide occasional out-of-hours support for business-critical events

Key requirements

• Strong hands-on BGP routing experience
• Deep multicast knowledge with practical troubleshooting
• VXLAN/EVPN experience
• Arista and/or Cisco switching expertise
• Palo Alto firewall experience
• Strong understanding of resilient and highly available network design
• Proven Layer 2-4 troubleshooting capability
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on
• Strong communication skills to explain technical issues clearly
• Experience in high-pressure, live or real-time environments
• Broadcast, media or live-event networking experience is highly desirable

• Strong communication
• Mentoring and leadership
• Ability to explain complex concepts clearly
• BGP routing
• Multicast and real-time content delivery
• VXLAN/EVPN

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