F5 Network Engineer

  • Xact Placements Limited
  • Jun 29, 2026
Full time Telecommunications

Job Description

Serious F5 skills? Love automating things that shouldn't be done by hand? This one's for you.

Our client is a market leader in the financial and trading space, building out its Application Delivery team. You'll own the F5 LTM & GTM load-balancing plant behind thousands of business-critical apps - and automate the work that keeps it fast, stable and scalable. Think ultra-low-latency trading platforms, global DNS, and a real engineering culture that funds your F5 certifications.

You'll

  • Design, build and troubleshoot the F5 load-balancing plant as a top-level escalation point
  • Automate certification and plant management with Python and Ansible
  • Partner with architects and developers to deliver well-engineered infrastructure solutions

You bring

  • Strong F5 LTM & GTM expertise - TMSH, iControl and iRules
  • Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL
  • Automation chops with Ansible, Python or shell, and you're at home on Linux Bonus points for Cisco/Arista, containers and virtualisation, or vendor certifications.

On offer

£80,000, fully remote in the UK after a 4-6 week London onboarding, funded F5 certifications, and seriously interesting infrastructure to get your teeth into.

Apply now with your CV, or get in touch for a confidential chat