Senior F5 Administrator

Job#: 3055782
Job Description:
Senior F5 Administrator
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA (Hybrid) or Remote
Pay Rate: $50-$53/hour
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior F5 Administrator to design, implement, and support enterprise F5 BIG-IP environments. This role is responsible for ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable application delivery across on-premises and cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in F5 technologies, load balancing, application availability, SSL/TLS services, and complex troubleshooting.
Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support F5 BIG-IP platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Design, configure, and maintain load balancing services, including VIPs, pools, health monitors, persistence profiles, and iRules.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, outages, and performance issues.
• Perform platform upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and capacity planning activities.
• Manage SSL/TLS certificates, renewals, and security configurations.
• Support application onboarding and collaborate with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Implement and support F5 solutions in AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and configuration standards.
• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering and engineering F5 BIG-IP platforms in enterprise environments.
• Advanced experience with:
  • BIG-IP LTM
  • VIPs, pools, monitors, persistence profiles, and performance tuning
  • iRules development and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of:
  • TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and DNS
  • Load balancing technologies and traffic management
  • Log analysis, metrics, packet captures, and application troubleshooting
• Experience designing and supporting high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, provide technical guidance, and resolve complex production issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying and supporting F5 solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
• Knowledge of application resiliency strategies, including blue/green and canary deployments.
• Experience integrating F5 with security technologies such as WAFs, firewalls, and zero-trust architectures.
• Automation experience with Ansible, Python, Bash, REST APIs, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Relevant F5 certifications (F5-CTS or similar).

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