Role: Senior Dev Ops Engineer REF 88904
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Hybrid/Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham - 60% in office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Up to £750 per day
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR DEV OPS ENGINEER
- 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.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR DEV OPS ENGINEER
- 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 environments.
- Experience in mentoring junior members of the team
If you are a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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