Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer (NetDevOps)
Location: Newcastle, UK (Also open to Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, or Blackpool) With Hybrid (60% on-site)
Pay Rate: Depends on Experience
Type & Duration: Contract |12 Months Contract with InsideIR35
Enterprise Network Engineering: Complex OSPF/BGP environments and designing resilient traffic flows.
Security & Firewalls: Extensive experience with Palo Alto (policy design/implementation) and Zero Trust principles.
Data Centre Architecture: VXLAN/EVPN, VRF segmentation, and multi-site fabrics (Arista or equivalent).
Load Balancing: F5 BIG-IP (LTM/APM/ASM).
NetDevOps & Automation: Moving away from manual CLI; proficiency in Python, Ansible, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.
Cloud/Hybrid Networking: Proven experience integrating local data centres with Azure, AWS, or OCI.
Engineer vs. Operator: We need a "builder" who can contribute to design and delivery immediately with minimal ramp-up.
Environment: Experience in large-scale, complex, or regulated enterprise environments.
Aruba Central/ClearPass, SD-WAN, or experience modernizing Legacy environments.
Not a pure Operations/Monitoring role.
Not a standard SRE role (requires deep networking depth).
Not an Incident Management role.

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a NetDevOps mindset to design, build, and evolve large-scale enterprise network platforms. This is a "build and delivery" role, not an operations or SRE position. The successful candidate will integrate automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into traditional network engineering to support critical, hybrid-cloud services.
Enterprise Network Engineering: Complex OSPF/BGP environments and designing resilient traffic flows.
Security & Firewalls: Extensive experience with Palo Alto (policy design/implementation) and Zero Trust principles.
Data Centre Architecture: VXLAN/EVPN, VRF segmentation, and multi-site fabrics (Arista or equivalent).
Load Balancing: F5 BIG-IP (LTM/APM/ASM).
NetDevOps & Automation: Moving away from manual CLI; proficiency in Python, Ansible, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.
Cloud/Hybrid Networking: Proven experience integrating local data centres with Azure, AWS, or OCI.
Engineer vs. Operator: We need a "builder" who can contribute to design and delivery immediately with minimal ramp-up.
Environment: Experience in large-scale, complex, or regulated enterprise environments.
Aruba Central/ClearPass, SD-WAN, or experience modernizing Legacy environments.

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