Principal Network Delivery Engineer

About Unilabs

Headquartered in Geneva and part of the A.P. Moller Group, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading medical diagnostics companies, offering a complete range of laboratory, pathology, genetics, and imaging services to patients across 14 countries. Unilabs invests heavily in technology, equipment, and people – using digital technologies in its state-of-the-art laboratories and imaging institutes – to improve the lives of close to 100 million people every year.

About the Job

The Principal Network Delivery Engineer is a senior technical leadership role responsible for thedesign, delivery, and lifecycle management of complex enterprise network solutions. This role acts as thetechnical authorityfor network delivery across multiple programs, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with business and architectural standards.

The role combinesdeep hands‑on expertise,technical governance, anddelivery leadership, working closely with architecture, security, operations, vendors, and project teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Network Design & Delivery

• Lead theend‑to‑end deliveryof complex network solutions (LAN, WAN, SD‑WAN, cloud connectivity, security).
• Translatehigh‑level architecture and business requirementsinto detailed, implementable network designs.
• Ownlow‑level design (LLD)creation, validation, and sign‑off.
• Ensure network solutions meetavailability, performance, security, and compliancerequirements.

2. Technical Leadership & Governance

• Act as theprincipal technical authorityfor network delivery decisions.
• Define and enforcenetwork standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Providetechnical assuranceto projects, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and security policies.
• Review and approve designs produced by internal teams and third‑party suppliers.

3. Delivery & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely withproject managers, architects, and service ownersto plan and execute deliveries.
• Lead technical workshops, design reviews, and risk assessments.
• Managetechnical dependencies, risks, and mitigationsacross concurrent initiatives.
• Provide clear, executive‑level updates on technical status, risks, and decisions.

4. Vendor & Partner Management

• Provide technical leadership acrossexternal vendors and system integrators.
• Validate vendor designs, build quality, and implementation plans.
• Ensure contractual deliverables and SLAs are met from a technical perspective.

5. Operations & Lifecycle

• Ensure smoothhandover to operations, including documentation and support models.
• Support major incidents and root cause analysis for complex network issues.
• Contribute tocontinuous improvementof network platforms and delivery processes.

Requirements

Required Technical Experience

• Extensive experience deliveringenterprise‑scale networks, including:
• LAN/WLAN (campus, datacenter)
• WAN / MPLS / Internet
• SD‑WAN solutions
• Cloud connectivity (Azure ExpressRoute)
• Strong knowledge ofnetwork securityconcepts:
• Firewalls, segmentation, VPNs, Zero Trust principles
• Proven experience with:
• Cisco / Fortinet / Aruba
• Enterprise routing and switching
• Network monitoring and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of:
• High availability and resilience design
• Network performance and capacity planning

Required Skills & Competencies

• Expert‑level troubleshootingand problem‑solving skills
• Strong ability to explain complex technical topics tonon‑technical stakeholders
• Excellent documentation skills (HLDs, LLDs, diagrams, runbooks)
• Ability to balancehands‑on engineeringwithstrategic oversight
• Confident decision‑maker under pressure
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills without direct line management

Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in network engineering roles
• 3+ years operating at asenior / lead / principallevel
• Relevant certifications (desirable, not mandatory):
• CCNP / CCIE
• Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Equivalent vendor certifications

What Success Looks Like

• Network solutions are deliveredon time, on standard, and with minimal operational issues
• Projects benefit fromclear technical direction and reduced delivery risk
• Network platforms arestable, secure, and scalable
• Architecture, security, and operations teams trust the quality of delivered solutions

Benefits

• Hybrid working model (office & remote flexibility)
• Opportunity to work on Swiss-market healthcare and laboratory platforms with real clinical impact
• International, collaborative, and regulated product environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Long-term ownership of a strategic healthcare product