Senior SC DevOps Engineer - Network Appliances
Posted 2 hours 30 minutes ago by IF Recruitment Ltd
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with deep expertise in network appliances to join our client's growing infrastructure and DevOps team.
The successful 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 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
Candidates must hold or be willing to undergo SC Clearance.
Please note this role can be based in either Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham.