Sr. F5 Application Delivery Engineer

Public Trust: NACI (T1)

Requisition Type: Regular

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Job Description

The Senior Application Delivery Engineer is responsible for the configuration, deployment, and management of the customer’s security appliances and infrastructure in a 24x7x365 environment. The senior engineer is responsible for but not limited to monitoring, configuration changes, accounts, and software updates for the customer’s security appliances for the customer’s Application Delivery infrastructure. The engineer must be able to analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate issues within the enterprise. The engineer will also work closely with other teams to ensure that all security solutions are performing to standard.

This position is 3 days a week onsite at 6555 Rock Spring Drive, Bethesda, MD travel is primarily local in the DC metro area.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Senior Engineer / Administrator of F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM load balancing.
• Perform F5 configuration and troubleshooting with database and application teams for over 5,000 applications that are load balanced in the Development, Test, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Work closely with other IT functional teams to ensure cohesive support and strategies across the IT organization
• Implement configuration changes, manage patching and support firmware lifecycle management
• Respond to incidents and outages, leading major incident bridge calls during production outages
• Conduct root cause analyses (RCA) for critical incidents
• Support security and compliance reviews and ensure all security vulnerabilities are identified and remediated.
• Monitor F5 platform health, review performance metrics and ensure failover readiness
• Review alerts and logs
• Maintain relationships with key Third-Party software/hardware vendors to provide support to the infrastructure as needed.

Required Skills:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent
• Minimum 7 years of experience in an Application Delivery role
• Minimum 7 years of experience in a Network Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering role
• Experience with network infrastructure in enterprise datacenter solutions
• Must have F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS) Certification

Desired Skills:

• F5 Certified Solutions Expert (F5-CSE) certification
• CCNP Enterprise or CCNP Security certifications
• AWS, Azure or Google Cloud certifications
• Cisco SISE certification
• Experience configuring 802.1X.
• Experience configuring and implementing network segmentation including VLANs and MPLS.
• Experience with multiple end-system operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Apple IOS
• Experience automating infrastructure using APIs, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools
• Experience with Forescout security products
• Experience with Cisco wireless LAN controllers.

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

7 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS) | F5 - F5

Travel Required

None