F5 Systems Engineer – TS/SCI with Polygraph
About The Position
Own your career as a F5 Systems Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to build strong lines of systems engineering and develop your skills using cutting-edge technologies. Your work in engineering at GDIT will have an impact on securing our clients’ missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an F5 Systems Engineer supporting Government activities in Sterling, VA or Annapolis Junction, MD, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter—and grow your skills as you go. Our work depends on an F5 Engineer joining our team to provide secure, expert traffic management leveraging F5 Local Traffic Manager, F5 Global Traffic, Tool Command Language (Tcl), and other advanced capabilities to support and enhance the client’s infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science Degree, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination (10+ yrs) of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
- 7+ years of relevant F5 experience with F5 LTM, ASM, BIG-IQ, and/or APM administration and life cycle management including experience with advanced iRule creation and troubleshooting
- Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of technology towers i.e.: Storage, Virtualization, Intel, Networking, Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery
- Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting network systems, switching, and routing protocol standards such as: TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, SDN, and 802.1x.
- Experience managing and troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP in a large multi-site environment
- Knowledge of risk and controls landscape, ensuring company-wide standards are met
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
- Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Security
- Must have the F5 Certified Administrator certification or obtain the certification within 3 months of hire date
- Obtain one targeted F5 module certification (LTM, DNS, ASM, or APM) within an additional 90 days
Nice To Haves
- F5 BIG-IP
- F5 Load Balancer
- Tool Command Language (Tcl)
Responsibilities
- Manages the configuration on multiple physical and virtual F5 across multiple data centers
- Participates in the development and support of customer technical requirements
- Plans, designs, develops, implements, and operates F5 products such as LTM, ASM, BIG-IQ, and APM
- Provides clear technical documentation and written procedures for issues identified and addressed
- Proposes and implements system enhancements that improves the performance and reliability of the network security infrastructure
- Monitors and troubleshoots platform and OS based problems: network security infrastructure, and connectivity issues
- Performs launch testing for new software releases and the introduction of new features
- Collaborates with different technology towers to achieve common goals
- Applies capacity planning configuration changes as needed
- Addresses performance, scalability, and service architecture administration issues
- Coordinates equipment orders including physical or virtual appliances, as well as upgrading, monitoring, testing, and servicing the systems as needed
Benefits
- 401K with company match
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you build your skills and own your career
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and 10 company-paid holidays
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
