Lead Network Engineer

2 weeks ago


London, UK, United Kingdom ARC IT Recruitment Full time

Lead Network Engineer

London/Hybrid

Circa £80k + bonus + excellent benefits


Cisco, Fortigate


Lead Network Engineer is sought to join the Global Network team within prestigious financial services organisation based in the City of London. This role will report into the Network Manager and be responsible for the management, oversight and delivery of IT services to the group. This will include helping manage the Network and Network Security teams at their key outsourcing partners.


You will be skilled in all areas of networking with strong capabilities in detailing requirements to the outsourced teams and also a hands-on collaborative approach to complete changes and projects in a timely manner. Being able to validate implementations throughout all stages of deployment to confirm they are correct will be essential.


Involvement in Global projects, either as the project lead or member of the project team from initiation to completion which may require travel to other offices and locations periodically.


Key responsibilities:


  • Be the local network lead for the London offices.
  • Be the local network contact for the London Applications team and work with them on all network related business application issues and requests.
  • Form a strong working relationship with other key infrastructure teams including hosting, storage, compute, security and end user services.
  • Be able to identify and bring structure to ambiguous situations and problems.
  • Be able to adopt an agile and flexible approach to work.
  • Be able to work independently and have the gravitas and acumen to work with IT Leads and challenge where appropriate.
  • Be self-motivated, driven and able to manage multiple tasks, projects and priorities and work in a team whenever required.
  • Work closely with the Global Network Team to jointly manage the IT outsourcers.
  • An adaptable approach to change between fault diagnosis, projects and enhancements and striving to simplify the infrastructure, at all times.
  • Be a key network team contact for all offices globally in order to assist with all aspects of the Network infrastructure.
  • Technically test and validate new services, improvements and upgrades so they are secure and ready for production use.
  • Prepare and submit changes to Change Advisory and Initiation Forums and implement approved changes through the development life cycle into production.
  • Create and maintain both technical and process documentation.


Key Requirements:


  • Strong background in routing, switching, wireless networks and Firewalling.
  • Hands on experience with Cisco, Fortigate, (ideally have F5, NSX, Infoblox, Solarwinds, SDWAN and Proxy technologies experience, but not essential).
  • 5+ years of end-to-end hands-on Network Management experience.
  • Proven experience of successfully shaping and executing control and audit remediation programmes of work.
  • Exposure to, and understanding of IT Infrastructure and Applications
  • Proven ability in working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural, diverse environments.
  • Experience of owning and delivering projects.
  • Experience of working with IT outsourcers.


Please note, you will be joining an organisation who offer excellent career prospects as well as an excellent total comp package and have their employees wellbeing at the heart of what they do.

For a full consultation please contact Arc IT.


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