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With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.\nRight from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.\nIn this role 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.\nThe 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.\nIt combines deep technical expertise with platform ownership, service engineering and engineering leadership, ensuring network services are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned to business 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estate.\nSupport vendor, partner and managed service relationships including technical governance and solution evaluations.\nProvide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance across the wider Network Connectivity engineering function.\nDrive standardisation, simplification and consistency across network connectivity services and platforms\nWhat you’ll bring:\nCore Technical Skills & Experience\nEnterprise WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi engineering within large-scale multi-site environments\nStrong understanding of modern network architecture, operational engineering and service lifecycle management\nExperience with SD-WAN, SASE and cloud connectivity architectures\nEnterprise routing, switching, segmentation and secure access design\nNetDevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code and network automation practices\nExperience with APIs, automation tooling, configuration management and operational telemetry\nCloud networking and hybrid connectivity across Azure, GCP and enterprise environments\nExperience 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Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.\nJoining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:\n25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell\nBupa health insurance as a benefit in kind\nAn enhanced pension plan and life insurance\nOnsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available\nVarious other benefits and online discounts\nWhy Bupa?\nWe’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. 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