Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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- SC Cleared
- 12 month contract
- Hybrid Contract Length: 12 months Location: Newcastle (Preferred), Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, or Blackpool (Peel Park) Hybrid Working: Around 3 days on-site, 2 days remote.

Pay Rate: Max £650 per day (Umbrella) (Inside IR35) Security Clearance: Mandatory Active SC Clearance is required for this role.

?? Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (NetDevOps) to design, build, and evolve large-scale enterprise network platforms.

This isn't an operations or 'maintenance' role.

We need a builder-someone who can jump straight into design and delivery, applying NetDevOps principles to support critical, high-availability services.

You'll be bridging the gap between traditional networking and modern cloud-integrated infrastructure.

??? Key Responsibilities Design & Implementation: Build and enhance enterprise network infrastructure across data centers, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, OCI) ??.

Security First: Implement Palo Alto firewall policies aligned with Zero Trust principles ???.

Traffic Engineering: Optimize complex OSPF and BGP environments for maximum resilience.

Automation: Replace manual tasks with Python, Ansible, and Terraform to drive speed and consistency ??.

Collaboration: Work alongside Architecture and Cloud teams to ensure solutions are scalable and secure.

Modernization: Drive the transition from legacy systems to VXLAN/EVPN fabrics and SD-WAN technologies.

? Essential Technical Skills (The 'Must-Haves') To be successful, you need deep, hands-on expertise in: Enterprise Network Engineering ?? Complex OSPF & BGP routing.

Design of resilient, high-availability traffic flows.

Firewall & Security ?? Extensive experience with Palo Alto firewalls.

Network segmentation and Zero Trust architecture.

Data Center Architecture ?? VXLAN / EVPN , VRF segmentation, and multi-site fabrics.

Experience with Arista (or equivalent) and F5 BIG-IP (LTM, APM, ASM).

Automation & NetDevOps ?? Scripting with Python and Ansible.

CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

? Desirable Skills (The 'Nice-to-Haves') Aruba Central / ClearPass ?? SD-WAN technologies SaaS and cloud-delivered WLAN/WiFi solutions Prior experience modernizing large-scale legacy public sector networks ?? What This Role Is Not Not an Operations-only or monitoring role.

Not a pure SRE role without deep networking roots.

Not an Incident Management role without design/build responsibilities.

If you are interested, please apply directly. xwzovoh

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