Staff System Admin – IT F5 Team

Job Description

Job Duties and Responsibilities

The IT F5 team is focused on streamlining access and connectivity to company’s core business applications as well as enabling partner connectivity in a safe and secure manner. The F5 team is an essential part of the company

business. As a member of this team, you’ll be creating new VIPs, adding members to pools, ensuring that the proper SSL configurations are applied, writing custom iRules, updating F5 operating systems all in a virtual environment that is both public and private clouds. You’ll also be responsible to join outage bridges to troubleshoot connectivity issues with a wide variety of applications and systems. This position will require on-call after-hours support.

The ideal candidate should be:

• Experienced in supporting multiple F5 LTM, APM and/or GTM platforms.  This includes installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting issues on these platforms.
• Experienced in VIP creation, Wide IP creation, certificate creation and updates, SSL profile creation, pool creation and pool member modification
• HTTP/S troubleshooting tools (POSTMAN, HTTP Watch, Fiddler, Curl, etc)
• AWS EC2 and VMware.
• Experience in writing and troubleshooting F5 iRules
• Experienced with packet capture analysis and troubleshooting
• Experienced in multiple tier application support

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining company’s F5 environments across all lines of business
• Support existing systems and services
• Troubleshoot application layer connectivity issues with other teams
• Provide technical/architectural solutions to the team
• Provide support to development teams, partners, and other stakeholders that require the use of F5 technology.

Skills and Experience

A successful Staff System Admin for the F5 team will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 2-4 years of experience direct hands on experience managing F5 devices
• Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to effectively communicate across all departments in the organization
• A constant learner-mindset with the drive to creatively think outside the box and innovate

Preferred Skills

You will stand out if you have:

• Bash/Python/Ansible Scripting
• IRules ILX expertise
• F5 Certifications