Network Engineering Lead
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Overview
In this role you will provide technical leadership for the School’s network services and drive the ongoing transformation of the network estate. You will work with a cross-functional team to ensure secure, resilient, and scalable services that support teaching, research and professional services. You will champion improvements in security, automation and operational maturity, balancing priorities in a complex, fast-moving environment. This is a chance to shape enterprise network architecture at a leading university and partner with stakeholders across the School.
Pay / Benefits- occupational pension scheme
- generous annual leave
- hybrid working
- excellent training and development opportunities
- Provide technical leadership for campus, wireless, remote access, data centre and network security services
- Ensure network services are secure, resilient and capable of evolving with staff, student and research needs
- Drive network modernisation, service improvements and operational excellence
- Develop a high-performing team and balance competing priorities in a complex environment
- Lead improvements in segmentation, resilience, standardisation and automation of the network estate
- Collaborate across organisational boundaries to deliver high-impact outcomes
- Support the Technology Strategy and institutional priorities through network engineering initiatives
- Experience leading technical teams and coordinating resources across operations, projects and service improvement
- Track record of delivering network modernisation and operational excellence
- Ability to collaborate across organisational boundaries and deliver impactful outcomes
- Passion for engineering excellence, continuous improvement and developing high-performing teams
- Strong practical expertise across enterprise-class network domains (routing, switching, wireless, remote access and network security, firewall technologies, DNS, DHCP, IPAM)
- Experience with large, business-critical networks requiring high availability, resilience and security
- Experience working with both technical and non-technical teams to implement operational services and change programmes
- collaboration across teams
- strong communication
- stakeholder engagement
- routing, switching, wireless, remote access and network security
- Firewall technologies
- DNS, DHCP, IPAM
Reference: WJ-747_30464759