Network Engineering Lead

Starting salary from £64k, salary dependent on skills and experience

Permanent

Full-time, with flexibility for part-time Hybrid role, working from Huntingdon or Lincoln Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from either our Huntingdon or Lincoln office.

Lead resilient networks. Protect critical services. Make a real impact.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll combine deep technical expertise with line management responsibility for a team of four, while helping to shape and strengthen Anglian Water’s Network Engineering capability.

As Network Engineering Lead you’ll play a critical role in maintaining and evolving a large, geographically dispersed OT network estate, supporting essential services across the Anglian Water region. You’ll take ownership of routers, firewalls and managed switches, ensuring the network remains secure, resilient and fit for purpose through proactive maintenance, configuration and continuous improvement.

You’ll be responsible for keeping OT networks available and reliable, responding to system alerts and incidents, troubleshooting complex issues, and supporting users across the business. Working closely with Infrastructure & Operations colleagues, as well as Programme and Change teams, you’ll provide technical leadership to deliver network changes safely and effectively in a live operational environment.

It is a challenging role, supporting critical operational services in a complex environment, but it offers a real opportunity to shape the team, influence the direction of the network engineering function and make a visible impact.

What you’ll be doing

Ensuring the security, availability and resilience of OT networks, responding to alerts, incidents and security events to keep critical services running

Troubleshooting complex network issues and providing expert support to incident and problem management

Maintaining and improving a large OT network estate through proactive monitoring, patching, configuration, asset management and controlled change

Leading and delivering OT network upgrades, enhancements and new-build projects, working closely with project and infrastructure teams

Driving continuous improvement across OT network processes, tools and technologies

Engaging with engineers and OT network users through on-site support, coaching and knowledge-sharing

Providing technical leadership, including participation in a 24/7 standby rota for critical incidents

Line managing and developing a team of four network engineers, promoting safety, wellbeing, inclusion and high performance

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

Full private healthcare with no excess
26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religionA flexible working culture

Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 7%
Life Assurance at eight times your salary

Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

Bonus Scheme What does it take to be a Network Engineering Lead?

We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader who combines strong network engineering expertise with the ability to build trusted, collaborative relationships. You’ll be a clear communicator and problem-solver with a passion for continuous improvement, able to simplify complex systems through automation while leading teams with attention to detail and purpose.

Skills and

Qualifications:

Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting assets / issues across a complex TCP/IP Network Understanding of WAN technologies and routing protocols.

Experienced at subnetting and IP Address allocation

Experienced in the prioritisation of faults and changes

Good understanding of Cyber Security risks

Experience of telemetry and SCADA systems.

Proven experience of working within an Operational Technology / CNI environment

Related network vendor or cyber security professional qualification

Previous experience of IT Service Management (ITIL)

Experience of Change and Release Management

Experience of Customer (Internal & External) Relationship Management

Experience of working within Cloud Environments, such as Azure or AWS Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, ARM, Bicep) – desirable

Experience with CI/CD tools and pipeline engineering - desirable

Experience working in Agile or Product-based delivery teams - desirable

Certifications in Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure) - desirable

The role requires CTC security clearance, or the ability to obtain itWhy Apply?

Apply to play a critical role in keeping essential OT networks secure, resilient and available, supporting services that really matter. This is a challenging role with genuine scope to lead a team of four, shape how the network engineering function develops, modernise the estate and make a visible impact across the region.

Closing date: 2nd August 2026#loveeverydrop#LI-ZP1
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