Lead Network Engineer

Principal Network Engineer

£90,000

Remote

Are you an experienced Network Engineer looking for an exciting new opportunity to work across an internal platform? The platform exists to provide space for the software engineering teams to build and run on. Network Engineers work across the 3 layers.

It’s a mix of Data Centre, Cloud Networking, Routing, Firewalls, Load Balancing and Private Connectivity across On-Prem and Cloud services.

You will be the senior technical lead across the platform, helping to shape the architecture and standards for the teams to build on. Bringing experience as a lead Network Engineer you’ll be able to spot architectural patterns and gaps early and deliver them as APIs.

You’ll be coding and using AI Assisted engineering with agentic tools such as Claude, and must have an AI first mindset.

Tech Stack

• Routing & Switching: BGP, OSPF, VLAN, VXLAN/EVPN, QoS, L2 – L7 protocols
• Experience running networks in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP
• Working on firewall policy for highly regulated environments (eg PCI DSS or Sox)
• IaC with Terraform/Ansible
• Coing experience python/bash/powershell or similar
• Strong Linux experience
• AI assisted engineer experience with Claude, Codex or Cursor
• MCP connecting AI Agents
• Experience with writing architectural documents, RFCs and post incident reviews
• Ability to discuss with technical & non-technical audiences

Benefits Package:

• 9% annual bonus
• Fully remote working
• Home office set up budget
• WFH allowance
• 5% Employer pension
• Private Healthcare
• 45 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
• 1 Paid Volunteering Day
• Up to £5000 for certifications and training per year

Please apply with your most recent CV or email [email protected] for more information

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