Senior DevOps Engineer

GIOS Technology Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for their project in Manchester. The role involves designing secure infrastructures and implementing cloud solutions, requiring deep expertise in F5 load balancers, Palo Alto Networks, and AWS. Candidates must have hands-on experience with modern DevOps tools and be proficient in scripting. This is a contract position with a focus on hybrid work, emphasizing collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with F5 load balancers required.
• Strong experience with Palo Alto Networks and Checkpoint firewalls.
• Proficient with AWS services including EC2, ELB, VPC, IAM.
• Solid understanding of networking protocols and concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement F5 appliances in AWS.
• Manage and configure network security appliances.
• Deploy and manage AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.

Skills

F5 load balancers

Palo Alto Networks

Checkpoint firewalls

Zscaler

AWS services

DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform)

Scripting skills (Bash, Python)

Job description

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We are looking for Senior DevOps Engineer for our client's project based at Leeds/Manchester/Birmingham, UK – 3 days per week Onsite.

Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance is must have

Job Summary

• 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, Zscaler 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 Zscaler 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 environments.
• Experience in mentoring junior members of the team

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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