Lead Network Engineer

up to £100k + Flexible Hybrid working options (Southeast)

The Lead Network Engineer / Senior Network Engineer will own the global connectivity layer for an exciting scale up business. The role joins at a time of growth, and this position would hold a senior pivotal role across their infrastructure networks.

The Lead Network Engineer would own the reliability and scalability of the global Linux Network infrastructure and devices, including mesh VPN and Wi‑Fi, so experience in a similar role at enterprise scale is essential.

Candidates with Networking expertise or Senior SRE / Dev Ops Engineers with Networking backgrounds will be considered.

• Leadership of Automating manual processes across global infrastructure
• Previous ownership of Modern mesh VPN’s (Tailscale or similar) and demonstrate driving improvements where needed
• Provide end‑to‑end monitoring, alerting, and reporting to improve troubleshooting
• Commercial experience with modern observability tools and scripting in Python, or similar
• The ability to work in a fast‑paced changeable environment
• Previous experience of AI, Robotics or Autonomous vehicles is desirable

All candidates applying must be based in the UK, ideally local to Southeast England, and eligible to work without sponsorship