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