At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to maintain and enhance network services across various environments.
- Company: Fast-growing IT consultancy known for digital transformation expertise.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hands-on leadership role, and opportunity for impactful work.
- Other info: Exciting projects with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and shape the future of networking solutions.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in enterprise networking and team leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 77368 £ per year.
Location: Bolton/Manchester
Contract Length: Three Months
Rate: £450 - £500 per day Inside IR35
I am working with a fast-growing IT consultancy who are quickly developing a strong reputation by helping organisations accelerate their digital transformations through expert delivery across cloud, AI, software engineering and enterprise technology. They combine strategic consultancy with hands-on technical expertise and partner with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver scalable solutions. They are now looking for a Network Team Lead to join them on a three-month contract.
Role Overview
The Network Team Lead is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for maintaining, supporting, and delivering network services across the organisation. The role leads a small team of engineers while actively contributing across BAU support, project delivery, and operational improvement. The position focuses on ensuring stable, secure, and high-performing networking across sites, warehouses, offices, and cloud environments, while also providing practical input into network strategy and future direction.
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership (Hands-on)
- Act as the senior technical escalation point for network issues.
- Lead from the front in troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
- Contribute directly to configuration, implementation, and support across all network platforms.
- Maintain and evolve technical standards, ensuring consistency and reliability.
- Provide informed input into network design decisions and future improvements, based on operational experience.
- Team Leadership
- Lead and support a small team of network engineers.
- Allocate workload across BAU and incident support.
- Provide day-to-day technical guidance and mentoring.
- Ensure strong team performance and accountability.
- Operational Delivery
- Support and maintain LAN, WAN, WiFi, and firewall infrastructure across all locations.
- Ensure services remain highly available and performant.
- Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue detection.
- Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes.
- Project Delivery
- Deliver network components for infrastructure and business projects.
- Support site rollouts, upgrades, and expansions.
- Work closely with other infrastructure and security teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Remain actively involved in engineering and implementation work.
- Security & Networking Controls
- Support secure network design and access controls across the estate.
- Contribute to segmentation and access improvement initiatives.
- Ensure consistent and secure configuration of network devices.
- Supplier & Partner Management
- Work with third-party suppliers and service providers to support network services.
- Assist with escalation management, service reviews, and issue resolution with partners.
- Provide technical oversight of supplier-delivered work and ensure alignment with internal standards.
- Support procurement and evaluation of network technologies where required.
Technical Scope
- Enterprise LAN/WAN (routing and switching)
- Wireless networking (Juniper Mist)
- Firewall technologies (Fortinet)
- Cloud networking (AWS VPC design, Azure connectivity, routing, and hybrid networking)
- Network monitoring and observability tooling
- Network access and segmentation approaches
Additional Requirements
- Participation in an on-call rota to support out-of-hours incidents.
- Travel to sites required to support project delivery, major incidents (P1), and key network changes.
- Ability to operate effectively across both BAU support and project delivery.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong hands-on experience across enterprise networking (LAN, WAN, WiFi, firewalls)
- Experience with Fortinet firewall administration and troubleshooting
- Strong working knowledge of AWS networking, including VPCs, routing, security groups, and hybrid connectivity
- Proven ability to support and guide engineers within a technical team
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management capability
- Experience in multi-site environments (warehouses, offices, remote users)
- Experience working with third-party suppliers or managed service providers
Desirable
- Experience with network segmentation or access control solutions
- Exposure to network automation or scripting
- Certifications such as CCNP, JNCIP, AWS networking, NSE (Fortinet), or equivalent
Key Outcomes / Success Measures
- Stable and reliable network services across all locations
- Effective handling of incidents with reduced resolution times
- Successful delivery of network elements within projects
- Improved operational visibility and proactive issue management
- Strong engagement with suppliers and consistent service delivery
- A capable, supported, and well-performing network team
ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
