F5 BIGIP Consultant - Kubernetes

Brave Futures Limited; Hyderabad, Navi Mumbai, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Brave Futures Limited in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced F5 BIG-IP Administrator to join our infrastructure team. The role focuses on hands-on BIG-IP configuration, production support, troubleshooting, and integration with Kubernetes environments.

You will manage LTM components, SSL profiles, and traffic management while collaborating with security and network teams to ensure high availability. The ideal candidate will hold an active F5-CA, demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills, and be

Qualifications

• Active F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) Exam 201 certification.
• Strong hands-on experience in F5 BIG-IP administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong BIG-IP LTM experience.
• Experience with BIG-IP GTM/DNS.
• Kubernetes experience involving ingress, service connectivity, load balancing.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, SNAT/NAT and high availability.
• Experience troubleshooting production application and traffic-related incidents.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP platforms.
• Manage BIG-IP LTM components, including virtual servers, pools, nodes, health monitors, SSL profiles, SNAT, persistence and load-balancing methods.
• Support BIG-IP GTM/DNS, Wide IPs and traffic-management policies.
• Configure and troubleshoot iRules, SSL/TLS and high-availability environments.
• Support ASM/Advanced WAF and APM environments where applicable.
• Diagnose application-connectivity, traffic-flow, SSL-handshake and performance issues.
• Support the deployment or operation of F5 components in Kubernetes environments.
• Work with Kubernetes Services, ingress, application routing, load balancing and service connectivity.
• Perform BIG-IP upgrades, patching, backup, restore and failover activities.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security and network teams during deployments and production incidents.
• Maintain configuration documents and operational procedures.

Skills

F5 BIG-IP administration

Troubleshooting

Kubernetes exposure

BIG-IP LTM experience

Networking basics

Tools

BIG-IP LTM

BIG-IP GTM/DNS

iRules

Job description

Joining preference:

Immediate or short-notice candidates

Mandatory certification:

Active F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) Exam 201

Position Overview

This is an F5 BIG-IP-focused position requiring strong hands-on experience in BIG-IP administration, configuration, production support and troubleshooting, along with practical Kubernetes exposure.

CI/CD, programming and DevOps automation are not primary requirements for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, administer and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP platforms.
• Manage BIG-IP LTM components, including virtual servers, pools, nodes, health monitors, SSL profiles, SNAT, persistence and load-balancing methods.
• Support BIG-IP GTM/DNS, Wide IPs and traffic-management policies.
• Configure and troubleshoot iRules, SSL/TLS and high-availability environments.
• Support ASM/Advanced WAF and APM environments where applicable.
• Diagnose application-connectivity, traffic-flow, SSL-handshake and performance issues.
• Support the deployment or operation of F5 components in Kubernetes environments.
• Work with Kubernetes Services, ingress, application routing, load balancing and service connectivity.
• Perform BIG-IP upgrades, patching, backup, restore and failover activities.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security and network teams during deployments and production incidents.
• Maintain configuration documents and operational procedures.

Mandatory Requirements

• Active F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) Exam 201 certification.
• Strong hands-on experience in F5 BIG-IP administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong BIG-IP LTM experience.
• Experience with BIG-IP GTM/DNS.
• Practical Kubernetes experience involving ingress, service connectivity, load balancing or application traffic.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, SNAT/NAT and high availability.
• Experience troubleshooting production application and traffic-related incidents.

Preferred Skills

• ASM/Advanced WAF and APM
• iRules and traffic policies
• F5 Container Ingress Services
• NGINX or Kubernetes Ingress Controller
• OpenShift
• BIG-IP CLI and TMSH
• ADC migration experience
• Linux administration
• Basic exposure to Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform or CI/CD tools

Important

The candidate does not need to be a specialist across every F5 module unless specifically required for the project. However, the candidate should understand F5 BIG-IP and application-delivery concepts and be capable of supporting F5 integration within DevOps, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.