Senior DevOps Engineer
Posted Today by 1756363295
£750 Per day
Inside
Onsite
UK (Remote)
Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer role is a 12-month contract position requiring SC clearance, focused on designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure with an emphasis on network and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with network appliances and modern DevOps practices, working primarily on-site in Central London for three days a week. This position demands advanced hands-on skills with various technologies, including F5, Palo Alto, and AWS. The role is classified as inside IR35 with a daily rate of up to £750.
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): £750 daily
City: Central London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior DevOps Engineer – 12 months contract – SC clearance – inside IR35 up to £750 per day umbrella
Must be 3 days per week on site in Central London
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 environ-ments.
Experience in mentoring junior members of the team
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