I am recruiting for an Infrastructure Engineer to work 3 days in either Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham or Blackpool, 2 days remote.

The role falls inside IR35 so you will need to work through an umbrella company for the duration of the contract.

Candidates must have worked within central government in the last 12 months.

I am looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (NetDevOps) to design, build, and evolve large-scale enterprise network platforms, with a strong focus on modern, automated, and cloud-integrated infrastructure.

This role is suited to a hands-on engineer, not an operations or SRE specialist. You will be expected to quickly contribute to design and delivery activities, applying engineering best practice, automation, and network expertise to support critical services.

You must demonstrate strong, hands-on experience in Enterprise Networking Engineering including complex OSPF and BGP environments, designing and implementing secure, resilient traffic flows and have a strong understanding of typical enterprise and cloud network patterns.

You must also be skilled in Firewall and Security Technologies including extensive experience with Palo Alto firewalls, policy design and implementation across data centre and cloud and Zero Trust and secure network design principles.

Data Centre & Network Architecture is also essential including VXLAN / EVPN, VRF segmentation, and multi-site fabrics, experience with vendors such as Arista (or equivalent) and knowledge of Load balancing technologies (e.g. F5 BIG-IP: LTM / APM / ASM).

Please apply ASAP if this is of interest.