DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Posted 6 days ago by Synapri

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Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ansible AWS Identity And Access Management (IAM) Cloud Computing Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Services Cloud Technology Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Cyber Incident Response DevOps DevSecOps Docker (Software) Domain Name System (DNS) Servers Elastic Load Balancer F5 Load Balancers Firewall Git (Version Control System) Gitlab Jenkins Network Appliances Network Security Python (Programming Language) Root Cause Analysis Scripting Security Clearance Terraform Virtual Private Cloud Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer role is a 12-month contract based in Leeds, Manchester, or Birmingham, requiring SC clearance. The position focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and scalable infrastructure, particularly in network and cloud environments, utilizing advanced tools and practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with various network appliances and cloud services, contributing to a growing infrastructure and DevOps team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, implementation, and administration of F5 appliances in AWS.
  • Converge multiple solutions of network patterns and create a self service, single pattern for the service.
  • Configure and manage network security appliances, particularly Palo Alto and CheckPoint firewalls in enterprise environments.
  • Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC/CaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize systems, networks, and application performance across hybrid environments.
  • Collaborate with security, development, and operations teams to enforce DevSecOps best practices.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
  • Maintain and document configurations, processes, and network topologies.

Key Skills:

  • Extensive hands-on experience with F5 load balancers expertise.
  • Strong experience with firewall platforms: Palo Alto Networks and CheckPoint.
  • Strong experience in Zscalar is preferable.
  • Solid understanding of networking protocols and concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS, routing, etc.).
  • Proficient with AWS services including EC2, ELB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, VPC Lattice, Transit Gateway, VPN and more.
  • Practical knowledge of DevOps tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform.
  • Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or equivalent).
  • Experience in managing production systems, preferably in regulated or high-availability environments.
  • Experience in mentoring junior members of the team.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Manchester

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior DevOps Engineer 12 Months contract Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham (hybrid) SC clearance We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with deep expertise in network appliances to join our growing infrastructure and DevOps team. The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing, implementing, migrating and maintaining secure, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure, with a particular focus on network and cloud environments. This role requires advanced hands-on experience with F5, Palo Alto, CheckPoint firewalls, Zscalar and AWS, alongside fluency in modern DevOps tools and practices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implementation, and administration of F5 appliances in AWS.
  • Converge multiple solutions of network patterns and create a self service, single pattern for the service.
  • Configure and manage network security appliances, particularly Palo Alto and CheckPoint firewalls in enterprise environments.
  • Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and per-formance.
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC/CaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize systems, networks, and application performance across hybrid environments.
  • Collaborate with security, development, and operations teams to enforce DevSecOps best practic-es.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
  • Maintain and document configurations, processes, and network topologies.

Required Qualifications

  • Extensive hands-on experience with F5 load balancers expertise.
  • Strong experience with firewall platforms: Palo Alto Networks and CheckPoint.
  • Strong experience in Zscalar is preferrable.
  • Solid understanding of networking protocols and concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS, routing, etc.).
  • Proficient with AWS services including EC2, ELB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, S3,VPC Lattice, Transit Gateway, VPN and more.
  • Practical knowledge of DevOps tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform.
  • Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or equivalent).
  • Experience in managing production systems, preferably in regulated or high-availability environments.
  • Experience in mentoring junior members of the team.
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