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Insight Global
Sr. F5 Engineer
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What they do
A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$139,281 / year median in New York
Job Description
Job Description We're looking for a senior F5 engineer who has owned an enterprise F5 platform, can assess whether it's configured correctly, identify opportunities to improve it, support Tier 3 escalations, and help drive ongoing modernization efforts including VELOS and broader platform optimization initiatives. Morning Operations & Platform Health
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- Review platform health, performance, and monitoring dashboards
- Investigate Tier 3 escalations from support and operations teams
- Troubleshoot complex load balancing, application delivery, authentication, or connectivity issues
- Review alerts and identify recurring operational concerns Environment Reviews & Assessments
- Analyze current F5 configurations and profiles
- Evaluate whether applications are configured according to best practices
- Review WAF policies, load balancing configurations, DNS/GTM settings, and traffic routing
- Identify risks, inefficiencies, or unused capabilities within the platform Improvement & Project Work
- Recommend changes to improve performance, security, and reliability
- Support the organization's migration toward
F5 VELOS
- Assist with authentication modernization initiatives, including Entra ID integrations
- Design enhancements to monitoring, automation, and operational processes
- Work with network, infrastructure, security, and application teams to implement improvements Platform Optimization
- Increase utilization of existing F5 capabilities
- Improve visibility, monitoring, and reporting
- Help automate repetitive operational tasks
- Create recommendations for future-state platform improvements We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day.
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https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/. Skills and Requirements 7-10+ years of hands-on F5 engineering experience supporting, designing, optimizing, and securing large-scale enterprise F5 environments. Experience serving as a senior F5 engineer, technical lead, or SME responsible for architecture decisions, platform standards, lifecycle management, and strategic modernization initiatives. Deep expertise with the F5 portfolio, including:BIG-IP LTM
BIG-IP DNS / GTM
BIG-IP APM
BIG-IP ASM
/ Advanced WAFBIG-IP AFM
- BIG-IQ
- VELOS Strong experience managing enterprise application delivery platforms, including:
- Load Balancing
- Traffic Management
- Reverse Proxies
- DNS / Global Traffic Routing
- Content Switching
- Traffic Steering
- Application Optimization Experience supporting highly available, multi-data-center environments and designing resilient application delivery solutions.
Extensive troubleshooting experience involving:
- TCP/IP
- SSL/TLS
- DNS
- Routing
- Authentication Systems
- Application Flows
- Network Security Hands-on experience securing enterprise applications through
F5 APM, ASM/AWAF, AFM, WAF
policies, authentication controls, and access management solutions. Experience supporting authentication modernization initiatives, including Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), SSO, and IAM integrations. Experience performing root cause analysis and serving as a Tier 3 / highest-level escalation point for critical application delivery issues. Experience with automation using Ansible, REST APIs, Python, PowerShell, Terraform, or similar technologies. Experience developing or supporting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps-related initiatives. Experience creating, modifying, and troubleshooting F5 iRules and iRulesLX. Experience supportingF5 VELOS
implementations, migrations, or modernization programs.Strong networking background including:
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- BGP
- NAT
- Routing & Switching
- Enterprise Security Architecture Experience supporting environments with thousands of applications or URLs Experience performing enterprise platform assessments or consulting engagements Experience designing future-state architecture after completing current-state assessments Experience leading large infrastructure modernization initiatives Strong networking and data center infrastructure background
Benefits
- Dental Insurance