Senior DevOps Engineer - Security-cleared

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.