Remote Network & Telecoms Technical Lead (Cisco)

Rsgroup; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

RS Group is seeking a Network and Telecoms Technical Lead to oversee global network, telephony, security, and fixed/wireless services. The role is hands-on technical leadership within a multinational environment, with exposure to Cisco ecosystems including Switching, Routing, FMC, WLC, ISE and FortiGate.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage supplier relationships, and support major projects while ensuring security, resilience and cost control across the telecoms estate.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Cisco switching and routing; firewalling a plus.
• Experience delivering multinational telecoms provision and support (WAN/LAN/mobile/telephony).
• Solid understanding of ITIL principles and incident/change/release management.
• Extensive experience defining and managing lifecycle of network/telecom services.
• Proven ability to manage outsourced support teams, suppliers and SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Support BAU operations, projects and incident resolution with vendors to minimise business impact.
• Ensure network and telecoms services meet contractual, architectural, security and availability requirements.
• Manage supplier relationships, renewals and service performance.
• Act as liaison between IT Operations, IT Delivery, business change and third-party providers.
• Review changes, attend CAB meetings and support transitions of new services into support.
• Support governance, resource planning, certificate management and vulnerability patching.
• Identify and implement service improvements and cost-saving initiatives.

Skills

Cisco switching

Cisco routing CLI

ITIL processes

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Network services lifecycle

Budget & cost control

Technical leadership

Tools

FortiGate

WLC

ISE

FMC

Catalyst Center

Job description

RS Group is seeking a Network and Telecoms Technical Lead to oversee global network, telephony, security, and fixed/wireless services. The role is hands-on technical leadership within a multinational environment, with exposure to Cisco ecosystems including Switching, Routing, FMC, WLC, ISE and FortiGate.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage supplier relationships, and support major projects while ensuring security, resilience and cost control across the telecoms estate.