Job Description
As the Senior F5 Engineer, you ensure that application delivery, traffic management, and web application security remain resilient, performant, and secure across a distributed, cloud-integrated enterprise. You solve the challenge of keeping mission-critical services continuously available while modernizing a traditional F5 BIG-IP estate into automated, software-defined, and SaaS-delivered architectures. By bridging hardware-based load balancing with F5 Distributed Cloud and public cloud networking, you ensure that connectivity, security, and performance scale seamlessly as the business grows. As a senior individual contributor, you own deep technical execution and optimization of the F5 environment and mentor junior engineers, operating within the architectural standards and strategy set by Staff and Principal engineers.
Minimum Requirements:
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
Minimum Experience: 5 years of experience in medium to large enterprise network/infrastructure environments, with demonstrable hands-on depth in F5 BIG-IP administration and optimization
Required Technical Skills:
1) F5 BIG-IP (LTM, DNS/GTM, WAF/ASM load balancing, SSL offload, DR/BC)
2) F5 iRules development (Tcl) and WAF/ASM policy tuning
3) F5 Distributed Cloud and SaaS-based WAF/security services
4) Infrastructure automation (Python, Ansible, Git)
5) Supporting technologies: AWS Cloud Networking, Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA), Palo Alto firewall administration
6) Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, DNS)
Preferred Certifications: F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS) or F5 Certified Solution Expert (F5-CSE)
