Team Manager - Network & Firewall
- Location North Somerset
- Job type Contract
- Salary £45 - 60 per hour
- Discipline Local Government
- Reference J92804
Team Lead – Networks & Firewalls
Hourly Rate: £45 - £60 per hour (Umbrella)
Location: Hybrid – typically 1 day per week on-site, 4 days remote (flexibility available)
Contract: 6 months
Start Date: Feb 2026
Hours: Full time
An experienced Team Lead is required to provide day-to-day leadership for a specialist Networks, Firewalls and Telephony team within a large enterprise IT environment. This role will focus on people management, workload prioritisation and service delivery, ensuring business-as-usual network services remain stable and secure while major infrastructure upgrades are delivered in parallel.
The Role
You will be responsible for:
- Leading and managing a small specialist team of network, firewall and telephony engineers, providing clear direction, prioritisation and support
- Overseeing day-to-day service delivery, managing BAU workloads, ad-hoc escalations and operational issues
- Acting as the senior point of contact for incidents affecting network connectivity, telephony and security controls
- Engaging with suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage support arrangements, maintenance contracts and renewals
- Ensuring effective delivery management across support services, balancing operational stability with ongoing change activity
- Providing line management, performance oversight and staff support during a period of infrastructure transformation
- Maintaining service continuity while aligned teams deliver the deployment of new network and firewall infrastructure
Requirements
- Proven experience leading or acting in a supervisory role for a small technical or infrastructure team
- Strong operational understanding of enterprise networking, firewalls and telephony environments, with the ability to manage escalations and service risks
- Experience managing workloads, priorities and service delivery in a live operational environment
- Ability to work effectively with specialist engineers without being hands-on technical
- Experience engaging suppliers and managing support and maintenance contracts
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in hybrid environments and supporting critical business services
If you are interested in this role, please submit an up-to-date CV to gfry@venngroup.com or apply online and a member of the team will be in touch.
We endeavour to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applications received, if you have not heard from us within 48 hours, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.