Senior Infrastructure Engineer
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise in network appliances to join our client's growing infrastructure & DevOps teams. The successful candidate will work up to 60% on-site at whatever of our client's offices is closest. This is a nine-month contract.
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 environments.
- Experience in grooming junior members of the team
If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.
- Company
- Parker Shaw
- Location
- Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom SN256
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Salary
- GBP 35 Annual
- Posted
- Company
- Parker Shaw
- Location
- Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom SN256
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Salary
- GBP 35 Annual
- Posted