Network Technical Integration Lead

Role Title: Network Technical Integration Lead
Location: Knutsford (3 Days per Week Onsite)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 30/11/2026
Rate: £640p/d via Umbrella

Role Description:
Lead engineering execution, quality and safe change into production; coach engineers; own NFRs and resilience patterns; make automation the default.

Responsibilities
. E2E design ownership: non-functional requirements, integration contracts, resilience patterns and rollback plans.
. Build testable runbooks; define/exercise change rehearsal, smoke/soak tests and rollback.
. Engineering leadership: code reviews for infra as code and runbook automation; SRE practices (error budgets, toil reduction).
. Defect analytics: drive remediation sprints; continuously improve standard change models and automation coverage.

Must Have Skills & Experience
. 8-10+ years in networks/security with design/build/operate across at least one major stack; hands-on with automation (Ansible/Terraform, GitHub/Azure DevOps).
. ITIL change leadership and MIM experience; disciplined PIR culture.
. Strong troubleshooting across layers (network, identity, endpoint, Proxy, SIEM/SOAR).

Preferred Certifications
. CCNP/CCIE, Zscaler Professional, Fortinet NSE 4+, Splunk Admin/ES, ITIL 4 MP (or equivalents).
KPIs
. Change failure rate; MTTR; automated test coverage; % of changes moved to standard/automated category; reduction in repeat incidents.