Job Description
F5 Resident Engineer
This role is primarily remote, with occasional on-site attendance required at locations in southern cities.
The engineer will act as the day-to-day operational owner of the F5 estate, covering BAU operations, incidents, changes, and life cycle support.
Engineer Responsibilities
* Incident support and troubleshooting (P1-P3)
* BAU operations and service monitoring
* Configuration changes across LTM, DNS, ASM, and APM
* SSL certificate management and renewals
* WAF policy tuning and onboarding of partner services
* DNS/GSLB traffic steering and site failover support
* Support for upgrades, pre-prod testing, and production promotions
* Collaboration with internal customer and vendor teams
Required Skills
Mandatory:
* Senior-level experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM
* Strong hands-on experience with BIG-IP DNS/GSLB
* ASM (WAF) policy management and tuning
* APM/SSL VPN configuration and support
* Ability to read, troubleshoot, and modify iRules
* Experience supporting 24x7 production environments
Strongly preferred:
* Service provider/telco network experience
* Multi-site, HA and failover architectures
* Proxy environments (forward and reverse)
* Exposure to BIG-IQ and centralised licensing models