F5 Network Engineer (Milwaukee, WI, Mayfield Heights, OH, or Houston, TX) Hybrid Role,

Overview

On Site
$50 - $60
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

F5

Job Details

 
Derisk the F5 infrastructure from commercial, operational, and security vulnerabilities through consolidation, software upgrades, and legacy hardware retirements.
Deliverables:
Documentation
F5 design documentation in MS Word and draw.io formats
Technical Delivery
Retirement of 90% of non-VIPRION platforms via migration to VMs
Retirement of 100% of VIPRION series platforms via migration to VMs
Mitigation of open critical vulnerabilities via migration or upgrade to the latest version of BIG-IP per F5 recommendations.
 
 
  • Team Size
    • Would be the only SME working with MSP and be part of broader network security engineering team which is about 20 people
  • Qualifications
    • Years experience = 8-10+ years'
    • Certifications
      • Doesn't care about those
    • Strong weight on soft skills - large consideration
    • Someone with more skills but not what he needs from soft skills/self-starter mentality he'll go with someone more junior
  • Day to Day
    • Wants someone proactive that comes to George with things they need vs being told what to do
    • Need someone who can be attentive and motivated
    • Existing SOW
      • Acting as F5 SME
      • Needs to have expert level knowledge in F5, LTM, DNS, ASM - application security
      • Nice to have = distributed cloud experience
      • Experience in Ansible
      • Some automation would be nice
      • Need to have very strong drive and work independently
      • Help develop their backlog - key metric
    • Has a network operations team that handles day to day tickets - this would L3/4 engineer that if MSP gets stumped or having trouble or critical P1/P2 incident related to F5 this person would handle escalated
    • Making sure F5 environment stays up to date
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