Senior Network Architect

4 days ago


Hook, Greater London, United Kingdom Elanco Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Network Engineer to join our team at Elanco. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for leading large-scale projects, setting technical direction, and influencing company-wide engineering practices and standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead large-scale projects within the organization, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results.
  • Set technical direction, strategic guidance, and long-term vision for engineering teams, driving innovation and continuous improvement.
  • Influence company-wide engineering practices and standards, promoting best practices and industry-leading solutions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
  • Solve complex, high-impact problems with innovative solutions, leveraging your expertise in network engineering and technology.
  • Drive continuous improvement and innovation within the organization, staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends.
  • Proactively research new and emerging technologies and approaches to enhance the network infrastructure posture of Elanco.
  • Engage in the community (internally and externally) across multiple channels, sharing knowledge, educating, and inspiring others.
  • Mentor and coach senior and junior engineers, helping them develop their technical skills and grow their careers.
  • Create and maintain documentation artefacts to ensure our solutions are well-documented and simple to understand.
  • Communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders, writing documentation, giving presentations, or meeting with clients.
  • Represent the team in meetings with other teams and stakeholders, discussing technical issues, providing status updates, or negotiating with other teams.
  • Contribute to the overall technical strategy of the organization, identifying new technologies or solutions that could be adopted or helping to develop the organization's technical roadmap.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Projects often involve collaboration with other teams, such as security, development, and product management. The Principal Engineer may need to bridge communication gaps and ensure everyone is aligned on project goals.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, service incidents, performance, and availability issues.
Requirements
  • At least 10 years' experience in network engineering.
  • 8+ years' hands-on experience in routing, switching, wireless, segmentation (Cisco).
  • Strong understanding and knowledge of SDN technologies (Cisco SD-WAN, VMWare NSX).
  • 5+ years' experience in designing and building technical solutions.
  • Solid understanding of firewall technologies (especially Palo Alto).
  • Solid knowledge of Network Access Control (especially Forescout).
  • Understanding hybrid cloud environment (Azure, GCP, VMware).
  • Familiar with network security solutions.
  • Strong communication skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex ideas in a manner that resulted in a definitive direction and result.
  • Strong personal & work organisational skills.
Nice to Have
  • Familiar with scripting and automation.
  • Experience within an infrastructure environment.
  • Experience in working with vendors and MSPs.
  • Strong passion for new technologies, new ideas and creative way of thinking.
  • Agile exposure and experience.
Education Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or commensurate industry experience.

Other Information

Overseas travel may be required. Working across time zones to support the global business.



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