Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

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£750 Per day
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Summary: The Senior Network Engineer role is a 12-month contract position requiring SC clearance, focused on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and high-performance network infrastructure. The candidate will work primarily on-site in Manchester, Birmingham, or Leeds for three days a week, contributing to the infrastructure and DevOps team with expertise in various network appliances and cloud environments. Advanced hands-on experience with specific technologies such as F5, Palo Alto, and AWS is essential for success in this role.

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: Manchester

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior Network Engineer – 12 months contract – SC clearance – inside IR35 up to £750 per day umbrella

Must be 3 days per week on site in Manchester or Birmingham or Leeds

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

WA Consultants is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as described within The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

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