Lead Network Engineer — Hybrid London | Real-Time Media Networking

VIQU IT Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

VIQU IT Recruitment partners with a major UK content production organisation to hire a Lead Network Engineer in London. The role blends hands-on technical work with leadership of a small team, including design authority, network performance ownership and complex escalations.

Approximately 80% of the role is hands-on across routing, switching and multicast, with 20% dedicated to mentoring three engineers and guiding technical direction. Hybrid work with 3 days in office.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on BGP routing experience.
• Deep multicast knowledge with practical troubleshooting.
• VXLAN/EVPN experience.
• Arista and/or Cisco switching expertise.
• Palo Alto firewall experience.
• Strong understanding of resilient and highly available network design.
• Proven Layer 2-4 troubleshooting capability.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical issues clearly.
• Experience in high-pressure, live or real-time environments.
• Broadcast, media or live-event networking experience would be highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical and design authority across corporate and business-critical networks.
• Design, implement and operate resilient IP network infrastructure.
• Own network performance, capacity, resilience and technical standards.
• Lead complex troubleshooting across routing, switching and multicast environments.
• Design and optimise multicast routing for real-time content delivery.
• Support a mixture of BAU, infrastructure projects and live-event requirements.
• Lead and mentor three network engineers through coaching and 1-2-1s.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex or high-risk network incidents.
• Work with engineering, project, security and other technical stakeholders.
• Provide occasional out-of-hours flexibility when business-critical events require it.

Skills

BGP routing

Multicast engineering

VXLAN/EVPN

Arista/Cisco switching

Palo Alto firewall

High availability design

Network troubleshooting

Mentoring engineers

Clear communication

Live/real-time networking

Broadcast/media networking

Job description

VIQU IT Recruitment partners with a major UK content production organisation to hire a Lead Network Engineer in London. The role blends hands-on technical work with leadership of a small team, including design authority, network performance ownership and complex escalations.

Approximately 80% of the role is hands-on across routing, switching and multicast, with 20% dedicated to mentoring three engineers and guiding technical direction. Hybrid work with 3 days in office.