F5 Engineer

As the Senior F5 Network Architect, you will provide support by analyzing business requirements to design and develop appropriate systems solutions according to specifications. You will provide technical expertise in evaluating, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, testing and supporting systems and procedures that are cost effective and improve work efficiency. Additionally, you will partner with enterprise and solution architects to ensure that the application meets company service level standards and roadmap requirements.

Responsibilities

• Implementation and maintenance of F5 security devices.
• Mentor less experienced engineers on the team.
• Provide and maintain configuration standards for the infrastructure.
• Administer and support F5 appliances throughout the organization.
• Monitor security bulletins and mitigate as needed.
• Recommend, design, implement, and support application delivery infrastructure integration into business solutions, while meeting the business' goals and objectives. This includes supporting documentation and diagrams detailing the specific infrastructure.
• Analyze network topologies and traffic/capacity requirements.
• Work on project/tasks assigned to networking team.
• Develop detailed project plans and implementation diagrams.
• Assist in driving the development, testing and implementation of technology solutions.
• Install, configure, and manage traffic management systems supporting Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Translate functional business requirements into a technical solution that conforms to global design standards.
• Research developments in assigned technology disciplines, determining business requirements, proposing changes, and developing migration and implementation plans as needed.
• Install, test, maintain and upgrade network operating systems software and hardware in accordance with release management requirements.
• Provide input into the security technology plan for the organization and ensuring that plans for their assigned technology discipline integrate effectively with other aspects of the technical infrastructure.
• Support large scale infrastructure migrations and baseline reviews.
• Support changes in strict accordance with the change management policies, including developing design and implementation plans for approved changes.
• Gain knowledge and experience in other network security technologies.
• Propose appropriate changes to standards, policies, and procedures based on emerging business/technology trends and operational challenges with the existing guidelines utilizing performance metrics and operational SLAs as justification.
• Conduct presentations via training sessions, or 1-to-1 training to network engineers on designs that are being implemented.
• Configure and support application security policies via the F5 ASM and APM security modules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical related field (i.e. Computer Science, Computer Networking, Computer Engineer)
• 5 years experience with F5 Hardware/Software.
• F5 Certified Big-IP Administrator (F5-CA).
• 5 years' networking experience.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting environments that include two or more of the following: Enterprise Gateway architectures including: Firewalls, Application Proxies, Global and Local load balancing, and/or Enterprise Management tools.
• Experience working in 24 x 7 centers with complex, high transaction, high availability environments.
• Experience creating implementation plans, LTM, GTM, and ASM configurations, TMOS code upgrades, and deployment of new load balancing builds for F5 or Kemp load balancing technologies.
• Experience with F5 Traffic Management Operating system, CLI commands, and Route Domains.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation.
• Experience with F5 ASM & APM modules.
• Experience with requesting and installing PKI server certificates.
• Experience with configuring PKI Certificate Authority (CA) trust bundles, Certificate Revocation List (CRL) and Online Certificate Revocation List (OCSP).
• Experience with network design, install, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP, QoS, and STP.
• Experience with routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers.
• Experience with Internet based data transmission

Good to Have

• F5 Certifications such as: F5-CA, F5-CTS LTM, F5-CTS GTM, or F5-CTS APM.
• 10 Years Cisco Enterprise Level Network experience.
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with high-level scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• ·Experience with automation and orchestration frameworks (ansible, puppet, salt, jinja