Network Design Lead
Network Engineering Design Lead
Location: London
Duration: 6 months
Rate: 700, Inside IR35
Clearance: DV required
If you enjoy designing complex enterprise networks and turning technical thinking into solutions that stand up to real-world operational demands, this is a leadership role where you'll make a genuine difference. Hiring for a reputed client, you'll lead a specialist team of network engineers delivering high-quality network designs for critical services-supporting resilience, security and long-term platform strategy.
What you'll be doing:
Lead the end-to-end design of network solutions, from high-level direction through to detailed design outputs
Produce and review both high-level and low-level network designs, ensuring they meet availability, scalability, resilience, security and supportability needs
Define network architectures and establish design principles, standards, blueprints and reference architectures
Drive network lifecycle planning, including technology refresh, capacity growth and platform evolution
Carry out technical assurance and design governance, reviewing designs from engineers, suppliers and third-party partners
Ensure operational support requirements are built into solutions from the start
Collaborate closely with solution and security architects to create integrated, end-to-end outcomes
Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts and technology evaluations
What you'll bring:
Extensive experience designing complex enterprise network solutions across routing/switching and core/distribution/access concepts
Strong network architecture fundamentals and the ability to translate business requirements into practical network designs
Proven experience producing and reviewing HLDs and LLDs, with confidence in design governance and technical assurance
Understanding of NIST and CIS security controls
Demonstrable experience across several areas such as: Layer 2/Layer 3 design, STP variants, LACP/port channels, first-hop redundancy, OSPF/EIGRP, data centre spine-and-leaf, VXLAN overlays, and/or network security/firewalling
Hands-on technical leadership with the ability to balance technical, commercial and operational considerations
A people-focused approach to developing others while maintaining technical authority
Additional information:
You'll work within a customer-first team protecting critical national infrastructure, with a culture of clear communication and collaboration
Ready to lead network design that's resilient, secure and future-ready? Apply today and let's talk about how you can help shape the next phase of network engineering.
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