Lead Network Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

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

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 business-as-usual operations, infrastructure projects and live-event requirements
• Lead and mentor three network engineers through coaching and one-to-one meetings
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex or high-risk network incidents
• Work with engineering, project, security and other technical stakeholders
• Provide occasional out-of-hours flexibility when business-critical events require it

Technologies:

• Cisco
• Firewall
• Support
• Network
• Security

More:

We are partnering with a major UK content production organisation that operates a highly available, live and time-critical technology environment. This Lead Network Engineer role is based in London, with three days in the office and two working from home, and offers a salary of up to £75,000. The position is approximately 80% hands-on engineering and 20% leadership of three direct reports, offering technical ownership without moving into a predominantly managerial role.

last updated 41 week of 2026