Senior DevOps Engineer - Security-cleared

Senior DevOps Engineer - Security-cleared

Posted 2 weeks ago by Parker Shaw

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Leeds/Manchester/Birmingham - 60% on-site , UK
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ansible AWS Identity And Access Management (IAM) Cloud Computing Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Technologies 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 Terraform Virtual Private Cloud Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Summary: We are looking for a Senior Engineer with extensive experience in network appliances to join a client's infrastructure and DevOps team on a 12-month contract. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and scalable infrastructure, with a focus on network and cloud environments. The position requires advanced hands-on experience with various security and cloud technologies, alongside proficiency in modern DevOps 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 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: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with deep expertise in network appliances to join our client's growing infrastructure and DevOps team for a 12 months contract working 60% on-site in either Leeds, Manchester, or Birmingham. 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 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.

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 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 environ-ments.
  • Experience in mentoring junior members of the team

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

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