Spectrum IT Recruitment
Lead Network Engineer
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Lead Network Engineer – AI / Robotics 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.
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Candidates with Networking expertise or Senior SRE / DevOps Engineers with Networking backgrounds will be considered.
Required skills and experience: 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
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All candidates applying must be based in the UK, ideally local to Southeast England, and eligible to work without sponsorship
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