Anglian Water Services
Network Engineering Lead
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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
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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 religion
- A 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
Desirable:
- Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
- Experience with CI/CD tools and pipeline engineering
- Experience working in Agile or Product-based delivery teams
- Certifications in Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure)
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The role requires CTC security clearance, or the ability to obtain it
Why 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
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