via Reed · 9 September 2026 ·11 days ago

Network Engineer - F5 / DDI (BlueCat)

Oscar Technology
London Contract GBP 15,600 – 16,640
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Network Engineer - F5 / DDI (BlueCat) | £64/hour (Inside IR35) | 9-12 months | Large enterprise client

We're looking for an experienced network engineer to join the operations team. This is day to day incident response and production support, not a project/build role. You'll be the technical SME for DDI/DNS and load balancing infrastructure, owning incidents through to resolution and keeping the environment running.

BlueCat is essential - candidates without hands-on BlueCat experience will not be considered for this role.

Key details:

  • Rate: £64/hour (Inside IR35)

  • Contract length: 9-12 months, likely to extend

  • Working pattern: 4 days/week, 40 hours, rota covering 07:00-18:00

What You'll Be Doing
  • BAU operational support and incident triage for BlueCat DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM - on-prem and Cloud Resolver), F5 (LTM/GTM/APM), and VMware Advanced Load Balancer (Avi)

  • Acting as the technical escalation point for business-impacting network incidents, working the problem until it's resolved

  • Proactive reviews - DR testing, vulnerability checks, identifying gaps in observability

  • Keeping runbooks, wikis, and documentation current so triage is fast and repeatable

  • Secondary support on adjacent security infrastructure - firewalls, proxy, content inspection

  • Enforcing production governance during triage, testing, and fixes

What You'll Bring
  • BlueCat DNS/DHCP/IPAM, including Cloud Resolver - hands-on and essential

  • 7+ years in network operations/support (not project/design-only), with strong DNS/DHCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, SNMP knowledge, plus layers 1-4 (TCP/IP, Ethernet, ARP)

  • F5 load balancing (LTM/GTM/APM) and VMware Advanced Load Balancer

  • Confidence troubleshooting complex problems independently, using tools like Wireshark, Splunk, NetScout, SevOne

If this sounds like a good fit, apply now!

Network Engineer - F5 / DDI (BlueCat) | £64/hour (Inside IR35) | 9-12 months | Large enterprise client

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