Joseph Ball
F5 Engineer at HSBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Ball is an accomplished F5 and network engineer with eight years' experience designing, automating and operating complex enterprise and government networks across Cisco, Juniper and virtualised platforms. A CCIE-level technologist, he has led high-profile projects for organisations like HSBC, the UK Home Office, MoD and DVLA, delivering datacentre transformations, multi-site EVPN/VXLAN fabrics and secure Azure migrations. In recent roles he has combined deep networking expertise with DevOps practices—building Terraform modules, automating F5 and firewall deployments with Python and AS3, and integrating CI/CD for staged infrastructure releases. He frequently bridges hands-on implementation, documentation and knowledge transfer, mentoring teams while owning escalations for critical services. Unusually for a network engineer, he holds an MEng in Robotics and has a track record of applying scripting and IaC to shrink deployment times and automate IPAM and cloud provisioning.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Robotics, Master of Engineering (MEng), Robotics at The University of ReadingClitheroe Royal Grammar Sixth FormSt. Augustine's RC High School
English
Github Skills (92)
bitnami10
charts10
linux10
credit-card10
helm10
financial10
kubernetes10
finance10
docker10
vmware10
php10
accounting9
k8s9
firefly9
authentication8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ballj/terraform-kubernetes-redis
Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
Kubernetes module to deploy Redis
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
rediskubernetes-deploymentdockerkubernetesterraform
ballj/terraform-kubernetes-ingress
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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