Tom Bell

Engineering Manager | Network Operations & Reliability at Scale | Meta | Optical Backbone · Network Automation · People-First Leadership

United Kingdom

About

Manager, Senior Network Engineer, Technical Team Lead with a breadth of experience covering multi-vendor technologies across a variety of sectors including social media, banking, gambling, TV, public sector.

Experience

  • Meta (Full-time · 7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Production Engineering Manager (Optical Backbone)
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Production Engineering Manager (Enterprise Network Reliability)
      Jan 2019 - Mar 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos

      I support an Enterprise Engineering team automating network operations and delivery.

  • Morgan Stanley (Full-time · 4 yrs 1 mo)
    • EMEA Data Network Operations Manager - VP
      Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr

      Led a team of 8 engineers supporting the EMEA network infrastructure.

    • EMEA Data Network Operations Manager
      Nov 2017 - Jan 2018 · 3 mos

    • Network Engineer
      Dec 2014 - Nov 2017 · 3 yrs

      Level 3 Network Operations engineer focused on EMEA, supporting the global network estate as part of the global level 3 team. Covering break/fix activities and deployments.

  • Enterprise Network Operations Team Lead at Sky
    Mar 2014 - Nov 2014 · 9 mos

    Team Lead to 9 experienced network engineers including two CCIEs. Responsible for supporting Sky's entire estate in England across four Data Centres and the main campus in Osterley as well as several other satellite sites around the UK and globally. The team manage the Cisco, F5, Bluecoat and Palo Alto estate as well as working with devices from a number of other vendors including Gigamon/Riverbed for packet capture, SevOne, NetCool, Nagios, Cacti for monitoring.

  • Senior Network Engineer at Tomorrow Communications
    May 2010 - Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Network Engineer/Senior Network Engineer/Team Lead for a number of high profile clients across multiple sectors.

  • Network Engineer at Barclays
    Oct 2013 - Mar 2014 · 6 mos

    Project engineer primarily concerned with a re-imagining of the global remote access estate. Working for the global head of remote access services I was the network implementation engineer responsible for deploying a redesigned global remote access solution for remote workers, iOS and Android devices based on Cisco ASA. Other ad-hoc project work as required.