# Lead Engineer– Network Connectivity Product Team

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: London, London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Up to £112k
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We make health happen

At Bupa, we're a health insurer and provider. You'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on people's lives.

As a Lead Network Connectivity Engineer, you are responsible for the strategic engineering, platform ownership, lifecycle management and continuous evolution of Bupa's enterprise connectivity platforms, including WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, SASE and cloud connectivity services.

The role provides technical leadership across network engineering, automation, observability, operational resilience, standards governance and service lifecycle management for a large-scale multi-site enterprise environment.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the engineering, lifecycle management and continuous improvement of enterprise network connectivity services and platforms.

- Provide technical leadership across WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, SASE, cloud connectivity and network security services.

- Define and maintain engineering standards, deployment patterns, operational procedures and technical documentation.

- Drive adoption of NetDevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code and network automation practices.

- Ensure network services are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned to enterprise architecture and operational standards.

- Act as a technical lead for root cause analysis and continuous improvement following incidents or service issues.

- Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Cloud, Operations and Product teams to deliver integrated and supportable technology solutions.

- Support governance, design assurance and technical review processes across the Network Connectivity estate.

- Support vendor, partner and managed service relationships including technical governance and solution evaluations.

- Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance across the wider Network Connectivity engineering function.

- Drive standardisation, simplification and consistency across network connectivity services and platforms

**What you'll bring**

- Enterprise WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi engineering within large-scale multi-site environments

- Strong understanding of modern network architecture, operational engineering and service lifecycle management

- Experience with SD-WAN, SASE and cloud connectivity architectures

- Enterprise routing, switching, segmentation and secure access design

- NetDevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code and network automation practices

- Experience with APIs, automation tooling, configuration management and operational telemetry

- Cloud networking and hybrid connectivity across Azure, GCP and enterprise environments

- Experience designing resilient network services for automation, observability and supportability

- Technical governance, standards development and engineering best practice

- Ability to translate business and operational requirements into scalable engineering solutions

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

- Ability to produce clear technical standards, architecture documentation and operational guidance

**Benefits**

- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

- Various other benefits and online discounts

## Skills

### Required
- WAN engineering
- LAN engineering
- Wi-Fi engineering
- SD-WAN
- SASE
- cloud connectivity
- NetDevOps
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- network automation
- API
- automation tooling
- configuration management
- operational telemetry
- cloud networking
- hybrid connectivity

### Nice to have
- Palo Alto Networks firewalls and Prisma Access
- Cisco Meraki switching and wireless platforms
- Network Access Control (NAC) and identity-based access technologies such as Cisco ISE
- Enterprise DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI) platforms
- SD-WAN and secure internet breakout architectures
- Network automation and orchestration tooling
- IoT and smart-building connectivity
- Enterprise observability, logging and SIEM integrations
- Managed service and third-party connectivity environments
- policy-based networking principles

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