[Remote] Sr F5 Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. INSPYR Solutions is a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions. They are seeking a highly experienced Senior F5 Engineer to lead the planning, migration, and upgrade of F5 infrastructure, focusing on transitioning from F5 iSeries appliances to rSeries platforms and executing a secure and scalable F5 VPN solution upgrade.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, migration, and upgrade of F5 infrastructure
- Transition from F5 iSeries appliances to rSeries platforms
- Execute a secure and scalable F5 VPN solution upgrade
- Provide expert-level F5 BIG-IP administration, architecture, and troubleshooting
- Design and execute F5 i-Series to R-Series migrations and platform modernization projects
- Implement F5 Access Policy Manager (APM) including VPN design, implementation, and support
- Design high availability (HA), Active/Active, disaster recovery, and application resiliency architecture
- Configure Global Traffic Manager (GTM) / BIG-IP DNS and manage traffic
- Deploy and configure the F5 Application Study Tool and perform application dependency analysis
- Perform solution design, implementation planning, testing, migration support, and production cutover activities
- Produce technical documentation, operational runbooks, and conduct knowledge transfer sessions
Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP platforms and proven experience with iSeries to rSeries hardware migration, F5 APM VPN deployments and upgrades. Need to have strong knowledge of LTM, APM, SSL/TLS, DNS, HTTP/S, F5OS and tenant architecture (rSeries)
- Experience with high availability configurations (Active/Standby, Sync-Failover)
- Expert-level F5 BIG-IP administration, architecture, and troubleshooting, including LTM and TMOS
- Experience designing and executing F5 i-Series to R-Series migrations and platform modernization projects
- F5 Access Policy Manager (APM) expertise, including VPN design, implementation, and support
- High Availability (HA), Active/Active, disaster recovery, and application resiliency architecture design
- Global Traffic Manager (GTM) / BIG-IP DNS design, configuration, and traffic management experience
- Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, and certificate management
- Experience deploying and configuring the F5 Application Study Tool and performing application dependency analysis
- Ability to perform solution design, implementation planning, testing, migration support, and production cutover activities
- Experience producing technical documentation, operational runbooks, and conducting knowledge transfer sessions
- Experience with F5 SSL Orchestrator (SSLO), Advanced WAF, automation tools (Ansible/Terraform), and F5 professional certifications (F5-CA, CTS, or CSE)
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