F5 Load Balance Engineer

Programmers.io; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking a F5 Load Balancer Engineer in Tulsa to administrate and optimize F5 BIG-IP infrastructure supporting critical applications. You will manage LTM, GTM/DNS, SSL certificates, and monitor health metrics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include configuring VIPs, Pools, Nodes, and Profiles, handling updates and health checks, and supporting on-boarding and performance improvements for business services.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of experience in F5 administration.
• Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM.
• Good understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and SSL.
• Experience handling production incidents and changes.
• Knowledge of GTM, ASM/WAF, and iRules preferred.
• F5-CA/F5-CTS certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage F5 LTM, GTM/DNS, and SSL certificate lifecycle.
• Configure and maintain VIPs, Pools, Nodes, Profiles, and Persistence settings.
• Monitor device health, synchronization, CPU, memory, and traffic utilization.
• Support application onboarding and load balancing requirements.
• Troubleshoot application accessibility and performance issues.
• Perform scheduled maintenance, backups, upgrades, and health checks.
• Collaborate with application, server, and network teams.
• Support incident, request, and change management activities.

Skills

F5 LTM administration

DNS/TCP/IP/HTTP/HTTPS/SSL

Incident handling

Team collaboration

Tools

F5 BIG-IP LTM

GTM/DNS

ASM/WAF

iRules

Job description

Job Summary

The F5 Load Balancer Engineer will be responsible for daily administration, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of F5 BIG-IP infrastructure supporting business-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage F5 LTM, GTM/DNS, and SSL certificate lifecycle.
• Configure and maintain VIPs, Pools, Nodes, Profiles, and Persistence settings.
• Monitor device health, synchronization, CPU, memory, and traffic utilization.
• Support application onboarding and load balancing requirements.
• Troubleshoot application accessibility and performance issues.
• Perform scheduled maintenance, backups, upgrades, and health checks.
• Collaborate with application, server, and network teams.
• Support incident, request, and change management activities.

Required Skills

• 4 7 years of experience in F5 administration.
• Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM.
• Good understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and SSL.
• Experience handling production incidents and changes.
• Knowledge of GTM, ASM/WAF, and iRules preferred.
• F5-CA/F5-CTS certification preferred.