Lead F5 Network Engineer

We are seeking a Lead F5 Network Engineer with strong expertise in F5 BIG-IP DNS/GTM, BIG-IQ, NGINX Plus, Azure networking, and Infrastructure-as-Code automation. The engineer will support enterprise load balancing, DNS, and application delivery platforms across multi-site environments.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and manage F5 BIG-IP DNS/GTM standalone nodes.
• Perform BIG-IP DNS software upgrades, configuration validation, and troubleshooting.
• Manage and validate Wide IPs, DNS pools, monitors, and traffic management policies.
• Administer and support F5 BIG-IQ lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot DNS, GTM, load balancing, and application traffic issues.
• Design, deploy, and support NGINX Plus HA environments.
• Configure NGINX Plus load balancing, server farms, reverse proxy, and application delivery services.
• Support NGINXaaS in Azure and Azure Load Balancer integrations.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production NGINX Plus clusters.
• Support Arista-based BGP Anycast routing architecture and network integrations.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using:
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • YAML
  • Jinja2 templates
  • GitHub workflows
• Review and enhance existing Infrastructure-as-Code automation frameworks.
• Perform root-cause analysis and provide recommendations for scalability, resiliency, and operational improvements.
• Collaborate with network, cloud, security, and application teams to support enterprise production environments.

Required Skills

• F5 BIG-IP DNS (GTM) administration and upgrades
• BIG-IQ management and lifecycle operations
• Wide IP configuration and DNS traffic management
• NGINX Plus administration and troubleshooting
• High Availability (HA) load balancing environments
• Azure networking and Azure Load Balancers
• BGP routing and Anycast architecture
• Terraform, Ansible, YAML, Jinja2, GitHub automation
• Enterprise application delivery and network troubleshooting experience