F5 Network Engineer – Load Balancing & Automation

Decskill; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 45 000 - 65 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Decskill is seeking a skilled F5-focused Systems Engineer to join our IT consulting team. You will manage and optimize F5 BIG-IP LTM environments, implement security hardening, and lead upgrades across critical load-balancing platforms.

You will work from Lisbon, Porto, or Madrid, contributing to national and international projects with a people-first culture and long-term career growth. Fluency in English is required.

Qualificações

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM / Load Balancing.
• Strong experience in the administration, configuration and maintenance of F5 load balancer environments.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and security hardening of F5 environments.
• Hands-on experience performing F5 upgrades, patching and maintenance activities.
• Experience identifying and remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities while ensuring platform stability and availability.
• Experience automating F5 operational activities using Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS and routing.
• Experience troubleshooting network and load-balancing issues.
• Network-related degree or equivalent professional certification.
• Ability to work independently in enterprise and business-critical environments.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Conhecimentos

F5 BIG-IP LTM

Load balancer administration

Vulnerability remediation

F5 upgrades/patching

Networking concepts

Troubleshooting

Independent working

English proficiency

Formação académica

Network-related degree or equivalent professional certification

Ferramentas

Ansible

Terraform

F5 BIG-IP

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM / Load Balancing technologies.
• Strong experience in the administration, configuration and maintenance of F5 load balancer environments.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and security hardening of F5 environments.
• Hands-on experience performing F5 upgrades, patching and maintenance activities.
• Experience identifying and remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities while ensuring platform stability and availability.
• Experience automating F5 operational activities using Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS and routing.
• Experience troubleshooting network and load-balancing issues.
• Network-related degree or equivalent professional certification.
• Ability to work independently in enterprise and business-critical environments.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Nice to have: F5 certifications, network certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, experience with Infrastructure as Code, scripting/automation and security/vulnerability management processes.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us

• Long-term projects with national and international context
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability