Onsite in Charlotte NC, USA
Max vendor rate ####/hour
40 hours / week
Network Architect
Top Skills Required :
- F5 BIGIP LTM and GTMDNS.
- F5 Certifications F5CTS LTMGTM F5
Job Description/ Responsibilities :
We are seeking a highly experienced F5 Architect to design, implement, and govern enterprise-scale application delivery and global traffic management solutions. The candidate will own the end-to-end architecture for F5 LTM and GTM (DNS) platforms, driving high availability, security, and performance for mission-critical applications across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect design and implement F5 BIGIP LTM solutions including virtual servers pools iRules iApps SSL offloading and traffic policies.
- Design and manage F5 GTMDNS solutions for global load balancing disaster recovery and multisite failover strategies.
- Define standards reference architectures and best practices for load balancing application delivery and DNS across the enterprise.
- Lead capacity planning high availability HA design and disaster recovery DR strategy for F5 platforms.
- Collaborate with network security and application teams to integrate F5 solutions with WAF APM ASM modules and third party security tools.
- Own the technical roadmap for F5 infrastructure lifecycle management including upgrades migrations e.g to BIGIP versions TMOS upgrades and cloud migrations AWSAzureGCP F5 deployments BIGIP VE.
- Automate F5 configuration and deployment using Ansible Terraform iControl REST API or similar tools.
- Provide L3L4 technical leadership and mentorship to network engineering teams act as an escalation point for complex incidents.
- Conduct architecture reviews risk assessments and performance tuning for LTMGTM environments.
- Develop and maintain documentation HLDLLD runbooks DR plans and standard operating procedures.
- Ensure compliance with security policies certificate management and regulatory requirements PCIDSS SOC2 etc..
- Partner with vendors F5 support TAM for roadmap alignment licensing and issue escalation.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10 years in network engineering architecture with 5 years specifically on F5 BIGIP LTM and GTMDNS.
- Deep expertise in F5 BIGIP modules LTM GTMDNS and working knowledge of ASM APM AFM.
- Strong understanding of TCPIP DNS SSLTLS HTTPHTTPS load balancing algorithms and iRules TCL scripting.
- Hands on experience with BIGIP VE deployments in cloud environments AWS Azure GCP.
- Experience with F5 automation orchestration Ansible Terraform iControl RESTSOAP API Python scripting.
- Solid grasp of enterprise network architecture routing switching firewalls VPNs and data center design.
- Experience designing HADR architectures across multiple data centers regions.
- Strong troubleshooting skills using tcpdump Wireshark qkview analysis and F5 iHealth.
- Excellent stakeholder management documentation and communication skills.
Preferred Nice to Have
- F5 Certifications F5CTS LTMGTM F5 Certified Solution Expert F5CSE or F5 Certified Architect.
- Experience with container microservices load balancing Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Container Ingress Services CIS.
- Familiarity with SDNNFV concepts and multi cloud networking Aviatrix Cisco ACI etc..
- Experience with CICD pipelines and infrastructure as code practices.
- ITIL awareness for change incident problem management processes.