Job Title: Product Portfolio Lead - Network (Infrastructure Platform) Location: Europe (Hybrid, occasional travel to Germany) Day Rate: £650 per day (Outside IR35) Contract: 6-Month Contract (high likelihood of extension)
We are working with a leading professional services organisation supporting a major European client to hire an experienced Product Portfolio Lead – Network.
This role sits within a large-scale cloud-native platform programme, focused on delivering enterprise network services across a hybrid cloud environment.
You will own the network product portfolio, ensuring alignment between strategy, delivery, and operational stability across critical infrastructure services.
- Own and manage the Network Product Portfolio, covering services such as DNS, DHCP, IPAM, connectivity, and virtual network environments
- Define and maintain product roadmaps, lifecycle strategies, and release plans aligned with platform and infrastructure objectives
- Act as the bridge between business stakeholders, architecture, engineering, and operations teams
- Track delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and blockers across multiple teams
- Ensure release readiness, including documentation, acceptance criteria, and operational handover
- Drive Day 2 operational readiness and service stability across all network products
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across automation, reliability, and performance
- Provide clear portfolio governance, reporting, and KPI tracking to stakeholders
- Proven experience as a Product Portfolio Lead, Product Manager, or Senior Product Owner within large-scale enterprise environments
- Strong track record managing network-focused infrastructure products/services across their full lifecycle
- Deep understanding of network technologies, including:
- DNS, DHCP, IPAM
- WAN and enterprise connectivity
- Virtual networks (e.g. VPCs / VNets)
- Experience working within cloud or hybrid cloud platforms
- Strong experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and release planning
- Ability to work across cross-functional teams (architecture, engineering, operations, business stakeholders)
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Desirable:
- Experience working in cloud-native platform environments
- Familiarity with container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of infrastructure operations and service lifecycle management
- Experience within large, matrixed organisations or transformation programmes
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