Head of Network Engineering

About the job

Do you want to take responsibility for our network infrastructure and ensure with your team that our services remain stable, secure, and high-performing? Then this role is right for you.
As Head of Network Engineering, you lead our Network Engineering team both technically and personally. You further develop our network architecture, set technical standards, and ensure that our platforms meet the current and future requirements of our customers and our business. In doing so, you combine technical expertise with leadership strength, pragmatism, and a clear focus on sustainable solutions.

Head of Network Engineering

Your Responsibilities

• You lead our 10-member Network Engineering team
• You ensure the stable operation of our network infrastructure and specifically develop the existing platforms further
• Together with internal stakeholders, you translate business requirements into viable, operationally secure technical solutions
• As a knowledge bearer, you shape the network strategy and architecture with a focus on stability, scalability, security, cost efficiency, and automation
• You further develop technical standards, processes, and best practices and drive topics such as network observability, security, and network automation forward
• In projects, you set priorities, create clarity, and ensure that solutions are implemented professionally and can be operated sustainably

Your Skills

• Several years of leadership experience in a technical environment, ideally in telecommunications, network operations, or IT infrastructure
• Completed studies in IT/telecommunications or a comparable qualification
• Very good knowledge of network architectures, routing, software-defined networking, IP/MPLS, security, monitoring, and automation
• Experience with access technologies FTTH and Docsis as well as infrastructures from Cisco and Huawei
• Clear, binding leadership at eye level and the ability to bring together different perspectives
• Solution-oriented, implementation-strong, and reliable working style
• Strategic outlook, operational implementation strength, and pragmatism in complex technical issues
• Clear communication and the ability to convey technical topics understandably and concisely
• Decisiveness and a good sense of balance between stability, innovation, cost efficiency, and business benefit

What We Offer

Work and Leisure

Home office, flexible working time models, close to public transport, modern office by Lake Biel, unpaid leave, holiday purchase

Individual Support

Support for training and further education, internal knowledge transfer

Work Culture

Flat hierarchies, creative freedom, high degree of autonomy and personal responsibility, goal-oriented teamwork

Fringe Benefits

Discounted Quickline products, Reka money, half-fare travelcard, sports facilities, fruit and drinks, discounted shiatsu massages

Why Quickline?

Quickline is a Swiss telecommunications provider that has been offering award-winning internet, TV, fixed network, and mobile services in Switzerland for over 30 years. With around 200 employees and independent, regionally anchored partners, we provide personal customer service on site in a highly competitive market and connect private customers as well as SMEs with the world.

Your Contact Person

Do you have questions about the position?
I am happy to advise you.

Jasmin Stalder
HR Manager

+41 32 559 98 48

jasmin.stalder@quickline.net

We look forward to meeting you!