Sr. F5 Delivery Engineer I (6815)
About The Position
As a Sr. F5 Delivery Engineer I, you’ll deliver secure, highly available application delivery and load-balancing services across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. You’ll engineer and optimize F5 BIG-IP solutions, manage traffic and SSL/TLS services, automate configurations, resolve complex performance and availability issues, and maintain compliance with federal security standards. The role works with Government stakeholders and engineering teams and supports mission-critical applications. The position requires extensive hands-on F5 BIG-IP engineering experience and compliance with applicable DoD 8140 qualifications for the 451 System Administrator work role. A relevant bachelor’s degree is preferred, though relevant experience may substitute.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant enterprise network, systems, site reliability, or application delivery engineering experience in mission-critical environments.
- Extensive direct hands-on experience administering and engineering F5 BIG-IP application delivery and load-balancing services, including system health, capacity, availability, and reliability.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting virtual servers, pools, health monitors, profiles, traffic policies, SSL/TLS services, high availability, and failover; experience with iRules or equivalent traffic-management logic is strongly expected.
- Experience monitoring performance and using advanced tools and analytics to isolate and resolve application delivery, network configuration, latency, capacity, and availability issues.
- Experience evaluating, engineering, and recommending load-balancing, network optimization, and application acceleration techniques across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Experience integrating F5 services with DNS, network security, applications, identity/certificate services, infrastructure platforms, and enterprise monitoring solutions.
- Experience automating configuration management, monitoring, deployment, and maintenance using REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, or comparable tools.
- Experience developing and maintaining accurate architecture diagrams, configurations, runbooks, workflows, change records, troubleshooting documentation, and operational procedures.
- Must satisfy applicable DoD 8140 qualification requirements for the 451 System Administrator work role; no additional technical certification is required.
Nice To Haves
- Active Top Secret clearance (preferred but not required).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related field; relevant experience may substitute.
Responsibilities
- Configure and troubleshoot virtual servers, pools, health monitors, traffic policies, profiles, iRules, and SSL/TLS services.
- Monitor performance and use advanced analytics to resolve latency, capacity, availability, and network configuration issues.
- Engineer and optimize F5 services across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Maintain high-availability and failover configurations supporting mission-critical applications.
- Integrate F5 services with DNS, security platforms, applications, certificate services, and enterprise monitoring tools.
- Automate configuration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance using REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, or comparable tools.
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, runbooks, workflows, change records, and operational procedures.
- Communicate system status, technical risks, and recommended solutions to Government stakeholders and engineering teams.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Paid time off (PTO) and holidays.
- Parental leave and dependent care.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Employee assistance and wellness programs.
- Performance-based bonuses may be available, subject to company terms and policies.
- Company-paid training and/or certifications may be available.
- Referral bonuses may be available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
