Job Title
Network Engineer - F5 Big-IP
Location
Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds
Hybrid Mode
2 days a week (work from client location)
Contract
Fixed term (6 months initially)
Skillsets Required
* Expertise: F5 Big-IP (LTM, GTM/DNS, APM, AWAF), Jenkins, GitHub
* Proficient: DO, AS3, Python and enterprise integrations
* Strong understanding: Network technologies, IP routing protocols, and firewalls
* Experience: Cloud‑based architectures, CaaS, IaaS
* Knowledge: Traditional datacenter hosted architectures
* Understanding: Operational resilience and security
* Agile methodologies and tooling such as Jira and CI/CD pipelines
Scope of Services / Responsibilities
* Seeking an infrastructure engineer with exposure to F5 networking services
* The Study Engineer sits at the front end of delivery. Their job is to take a customer or programme requirement and turn it into a clear, build‑ready technical solution for the delivery and service teams
* The Study Engineer is responsible for the technical discovery and design that happens before build and implementation
* Understand application, traffic, security, and resilience requirements
* Determine whether an existing F5 pattern can be used or whether a bespoke design is required
* Produce design and handover artefacts
* A key output of the Study Engineer is documentation that enables delivery without ambiguity
* Approved F5 pattern selection or design alignment
* Identification of risks, assumptions, and dependencies before build
* This ensures delivery engineers can execute without rework or clarification loops
* Bridges architecture, security, and delivery
* Study Engineers act as a technical translator across teams
* Align solutions with security and governance expectations
* Ensure designs are compatible with the current F5 estate and tooling
* Validate that what’s being requested is achievable within platform standards
* Needs strong F5 & networking expertise
* Although they may not always build configurations themselves, Study Engineers need deep technical understanding to design effectively
* F5 BIG‑IP modules (LTM, DNS/GTM, APM, AWAF)
* SSL/TLS, traffic management, persistence, health monitoring
* Automation and tooling awareness (e.g. AppViewX, AS3/DO)
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