Lead Network Engineer

Lead Network Engineer

As a Lead Network Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end network services within our AWS Public Cloud environment, utilizing automation and Infrastructure as Code alongside our wide area network provider. You will manage the full lifecycle of network platforms—both hardware and software—ensuring delivery, performance, and service commitments are consistently met. In this role, you will develop and uphold technical standards, provide expert consultancy and leadership across multiple projects, act as the primary technical contact, and oversee cost management throughout design and delivery phases. Additionally, you will lead and mentor both direct and indirect team members, driving their development while continuously enhancing network architecture to support scalability, security, and organizational growth.

This role is Hybrid working, so travel to our Travis Perkins head office based in Northampton is required for part of your working week!

Principal Accountabilities 

• Provides technical support and issue resolution for clients of the end to end Network Service, documenting standard internal processes for solutions and to transfer these into business as usual delivery.

• Escalates network issues to the appropriate support teams where outside of the scope of the Service team and ensures that incident ownership is transferred and acknowledged.

• Monitors and manages work queues ensuring incidents are resolved or escalated within time, ensuring excellent communication of results to the customer in a timely and professional manner.

• Assist in the provision of an effective and efficient service to the Travis Perkins group business and in the proactive management of all systems to maintain a high degree of system uptime. 

• Follow all technical and management procedures both internal and external to the department and assists in the identification and resolution of the deficiency or absence of procedures ensuring that all system documentation is created and maintained up to date.

• To assist in the implementation of projects and planned activities assigned and ensure adherence to the Travis Perkins group change procedures. To lead / assist in the deployment of new infrastructure acting as the primary interface for assigned portfolios of projects.

• Advise and escalate to the department and management tier both technical and operational issues where necessary and maintain a working knowledge of the Travis Perkins and Business management structure.

• Contribute to decommissioning plans where systems are no longer required.  Provision the most cost effective solutions only when required – keeping up with new technology trends and options.

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves – you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!