F5 Load Balancing Engineer - Proxy Tech/Threat Prevention/Firewall/DNS/tooling - CONTRACT

Our investment banking client is looking for an experienced F5 Network Engineer with strong load balancing, Proxy experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical areas of focus include but are not limited to Load balancers, proxies, network address translation, routing, and intrusion detection/prevention systems
• Proactive network reviews including
  • Routine testing of disaster recovery scenarios, identification of vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement in observability across the network stack
• Mentorship of Production Services Specialists and technical leadership within the team
• Work with senior team members to validate impacts and communicate to all stakeholder's technical status updates
• Participate in the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience in failure scenarios, contacts for various support needs and ensures appropriate runbooks and knowledge management sites are up to date and available for use during triage

Required Skills:

• Specialist Experience with Network technologies
  • Load Balancing Technologies (F5 and AVI)
  • Proxy Technologies (Trellix and BlueCoat)
  • Threat Prevention, IDS/IPS
  • Firewall Technologies (Fortinet and Checkpoint) - Controllers, Management Platforms, Rule/policy review and Tunnelling protocols (SSL/TLS, IPSEC, GRE)
  • Network Resiliency - HA-local failover, backups
  • WAN/MAN, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, Latency, VRRP, BGP, Multicast, IPv4, IPv6, VPN
• Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA
• Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling; Inclusive of but not limited to NetScout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, NNMI, OBM, IBM Watson, NSO, etc.
• General experience in Network Automation tools and processes

Contract role inside IR35 - hybrid working - near Manchester/Stoke, hybrid