F5 Engineer

TEKsystems•Des Moines, IA

2d•$45 - $45•Remote

About The Position

The F5 Administrator is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and supporting enterprise F5 BIG-IP application delivery and traffic management platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. The role provides advanced technical expertise in load balancing, application availability, SSL/TLS services, resiliency, and automation, and serves as an escalation resource for complex incidents affecting business-critical applications. The F5 Administrator collaborates with architecture, engineering, security, and application teams to apply standards, support platform modernization, and deliver reliable, scalable services. The position is fully remote and based out of Des Moines, Iowa. It is a contract role with an expert-level experience designation.

Requirements

Expert-level experience designation.
Automation skills.
Experience administering and supporting enterprise F5 BIG-IP platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Ability to design, configure, and maintain BIG-IP application traffic services, including VIPs, pools, health monitors, persistence, profiles, and iRules.
Experience supporting SSL/TLS services, certificates, and high-availability designs.
Ability to perform technical incident triage and contribute to root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

Administer and support the reliability, availability, performance, and lifecycle of enterprise F5 BIG-IP platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Act as an escalation resource for complex incidents and performance or outage issues; perform technical triage, contribute to root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative actions.
Design, configure, and maintain application traffic services, including VIPs, pools, health monitors, persistence, profiles, and iRules, using established patterns and standards.
Perform platform lifecycle activities, including upgrades, hotfixes, vulnerability remediation, capacity planning, and maintenance windows, in accordance with change governance.
Administer platform SSL/TLS services, including certificate deployment, renewal, synchronization, security baselines, and audit evidence in high-availability designs.
Support onboarding of new application services by gathering requirements, providing technical guidance, and helping ensure production readiness and effective operational support.
Implement and support hybrid and cloud-based deployments, including AWS and/or Azure F5 services, integration with security controls, and alignment with cloud networking patterns.
Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, build guides, and configuration baselines; share knowledge and promote consistent practices that support audits and service continuity.