Key Responsibilities
- Act as the F5 SME for enterprise infrastructure and provide L3 technical support.
- Design, implement, configure and maintain F5 application delivery and security services.
- Manage F5 upgrades, patches, migrations and technology refresh initiatives.
- Troubleshoot complex load balancing and application delivery issues and perform RCA.
- Support HA, DR, capacity planning and platform performance optimisation.
- Lead F5 implementation, migration and application onboarding activities.
- Participate in solution design, architecture reviews and technical governance.
- Support F5 security capabilities including Advanced WAF/ASM, SSL/TLS and traffic inspection.
- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and implementation procedures.
- Identify opportunities for automation and continuous platform improvement.
Mandatory Skills
- F5 BIG-IP LTM
- F5 DNS / GTM
- F5 Advanced WAF / ASM
- iRules
- Load Balancing & Application Delivery Networking
- SSL Offloading / SSL-TLS
- Health Monitoring & Certificate Management
- High Availability / Failover
- TCP/IP, Routing & Switching
- BGP, OSPF, VLANs, NAT and DNS
- Network Security / WAF
Preferred
- Experience in Telecommunications or large enterprise environments.
- AWS / Azure networking exposure.
- Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point or Cisco.
- Automation / Infrastructure as Code / CI-CD.
- Zero Trust architecture knowledge.
- F5, CCNP or CISSP certifications.