Network Technical Integration Lead

Location: Hybrid (60% onsite / 40% remote) Duration: Contract through to November 2026 Rate: £550 - £604 per day - Inside IR35

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Network Technical Integration Lead to drive engineering execution, ensure quality delivery, and lead safe, controlled change into production environments.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on resilience, automation-first engineering, and end-to-end design accountability. You will coach engineers, embed SRE best practices, and ensure non-functional requirements (NFRs) are engineered into every solution.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Design Ownership Lead integration design including non-functional requirements, resilience patterns, integration contracts, and rollback strategies.

Change & Release Engineering Define and execute structured change rehearsals, smoke testing, soak testing, and production rollbacks.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code Conduct code reviews across IaC and automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Git-based pipelines). Drive automation as the default engineering approach.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices Implement error budgets, reduce toil, and enhance reliability engineering standards.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement Lead defect analytics and remediation sprints. Improve change models and expand automation coverage. Foster a disciplined post-incident review (PIR) culture.

Essential Experience

8-10+ years' experience across network and security engineering (design, build, operate)

Strong troubleshooting across multiple layers:

Network

Identity

Endpoint

Proxy

SIEM / SOAR

Hands-on automation experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps)

Proven ITIL change leadership experience

Major Incident Management (MIM) exposure

Desirable Certifications

CCNP / CCIE

Zscaler Professional

Fortinet NSE 4+

Splunk Admin / Enterprise Security

ITIL 4 Managing Professional (or equivalent)

Success Metrics

Reduced change failure rate

Improved MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution)

Increased automated test coverage

Higher percentage of changes moved to standard/automated models

Measurable reduction in repeat incidents

This role is ideal for a technically strong, automation-driven engineering leader who thrives in complex enterprise environments and is passionate about building resilient, production-ready network platforms