Lead Network Engineer

Lead Network EngineerCore technical skills: Cisco networking, Catalyst, Nexus, ISE, Palo Alto Firewalls, Prisma Access, Azure networking, SD-WAN.Hybrid working: 3 days per week required in the office in London.The role will provide technical leadership for the design, operation, security and continual improvement of my clients network infrastructure across office, data centre, cloud and remote access environments.Responsibilities: - Lead the implementation, support and life cycle management of network services across office, data centre, cloud connectivity, wireless and remote access environments. - Maintain secure, resilient and scalable network services aligned to business requirements, client expectations and regulatory obligations. - Support disaster recovery testing, failover validation and availability improvement for critical network services. - Monitor network performance, identify risks, resolve complex incidents and drive continual service improvement. - Shape and maintain the technical roadmap for network services, ensuring alignment with the firm''s technology strategy, security requirements and resilience objectives. - Provide architectural assurance for projects, office moves, cloud adoption and supplier-led changes, ensuring risks and operational impacts are understood. - Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to network engineers, junior colleagues and wider IT teams. - Operate network services in line with ITIL-aligned incident, problem, ..... full job details .....