Network Technical Integration Lead

Location: Hybrid (60% onsite / 40% remote)
Duration: Contract through to November 2026
Rate: £550 - £604 per day - Inside IR35

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Network Technical Integration Lead to drive engineering execution, ensure quality delivery, and lead safe, controlled change into production environments.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on resilience, automation-first engineering, and end-to-end design accountability. You will coach engineers, embed SRE best practices, and ensure non-functional requirements (NFRs) are engineered into every solution.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Design Ownership
  Lead integration design including non-functional requirements, resilience patterns, integration contracts, and rollback strategies.

• Change & Release Engineering
  Define and execute structured change rehearsals, smoke testing, soak testing, and production rollbacks.

• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
  Conduct code reviews across IaC and automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Git-based pipelines).
  Drive automation as the default engineering approach.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices
  Implement error budgets, reduce toil, and enhance reliability engineering standards.

• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
  Lead defect analytics and remediation sprints.
  Improve change models and expand automation coverage.
  Foster a disciplined post-incident review (PIR) culture.

Essential Experience

• 8-10+ years' experience across network and security engineering (design, build, operate)

• Strong troubleshooting across multiple layers:

  • Network

  • Identity

  • Endpoint

  • Proxy

  • SIEM / SOAR

• Hands-on automation experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps)

• Proven ITIL change leadership experience

• Major Incident Management (MIM) exposure

Desirable Certifications

• CCNP / CCIE

• Zscaler Professional

• Fortinet NSE 4+

• Splunk Admin / Enterprise Security

• ITIL 4 Managing Professional (or equivalent)

Success Metrics

• Reduced change failure rate

• Improved MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution)

• Increased automated test coverage

• Higher percentage of changes moved to standard/automated models

• Measurable reduction in repeat incidents

This role is ideal for a technically strong, automation-driven engineering leader who thrives in complex enterprise environments and is passionate about building resilient, production-ready network platforms.