Required Skills: F5-CA, F5-CTS LTM, F5-CTS GTM, or F5-CTS APM.
Job Description
Title - F5 Load Balancer and AVI Engineer
JOB Description:
Responsible for overseeing the overall design and health of the Load Balancer environment, mentoring junior engineers, reviewing all F5/AVI/AVI implementation plans, managing installation projects, and resolving complex production issues. This role will perform design, implementation, and maintenance of load balancer application delivery controller infrastructure using F5/AVI Big-IP LTM/GTM/ASM and AVI Load Balancers.
Responsibilities & Essential Duties:
- Provide and maintain configuration standards for the infrastructure.
- Administer and support F5 appliances throughout the organization.
- Administer and support VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi)
- Avi Networks control/Data planes hands on Experience.
- Self-service Multi Cloud Application Services Platform, software load balancers, web application firewall (WAF), and container Ingress for applications across data centers.
- Recommend, design, implement, and support application delivery infrastructure integration into business solutions, while meeting the business' goals and objectives. This includes supporting documentation and diagrams detailing the specific infrastructure.
- Install, configure, and manage traffic management systems supporting Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Design and implementation experience with F5 Big IP LTM and GTM appliances and virtual appliances.
- Experience in multi-cloud load balancer (VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI))
- Knowledge of networking protocols: BGP, RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, BFD, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and NAT
- Excellent understanding of LTM configuration (VIPs, Persistence, SNAT, SSL, etc.).
- Experience writing and troubleshooting iRules and Managing AVI GSLB/ AVI Controllers.
- Ability to troubleshoot connection issues and services on F5/AVI appliances
- AVI/F5 OS upgrades, backup and restores & Managing AVI/F5 appliances in HA configurations.
- Knowledge of troubleshooting tools, such as: openssl, QKView, logs, curl, Wireshark, Fiddler, Postman.
- Knowledge of http protocol versions, headers, methods, and status codes.
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot network traffic from layer 1 through 7 with utilities including SSH, nslookup, tcpdump, ssldump, cURL, HTTP GET and Open SSL.
- Ability to effectively articulate the implications and impact that proposed architectural changes will have on the business (to technical and non-technical audiences).
- Availability during evenings and weekends for P1 issues and scheduled change controls.
- Availability to provide 24x7 on-call support as scheduled & Knowledge of network monitoring solutions.
- Knowledge of application load balancing strategies and advanced techniques for application delivery
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years' experience with F5/AVI Hardware/Software.
- F5/AVI Certified Big-IP Administrator (F5/AVI-CA).
- 2 years’ experience in AVI Multi cloud Load Balancer, vCenter, NSX- T Manager & ESXI
- Experience working in 24 x 7 centers with complex, high transaction, high availability environments.
- Experience creating implementation plans, LTM, GTM, and ASM configurations, TMOS code upgrades, and deployment of new load balancing builds for F5 or AVI load balancing technologies.
- Experience with F5/AVI Traffic Management Operating system, CLI commands, and Route Domains.
- Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation.
- Experience with F5/AVI ASM & APM modules.
- Experience with requesting and installing PKI server certificates.
- Experience with configuring PKI Certificate Authority (CA) trust bundles, Certificate Revocation List (CRL) and Online Certificate Revocation List (OCSP).
- Experience with network design, install, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP, QoS, and STP.
- Experience with routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers.
- Experience with Internet based data transmission.
Preferred Certification: -
- F5/AVI Certifications such as: F5-CA, F5-CTS LTM, F5-CTS GTM, or F5-CTS APM.
- Experience with configuration, deployment, and administration of F5 TMOS versions 11.x or higher.
- Minimum 2 years’ Experience in AVI Multi cloud Load Balancer, vCenter, NSX- T Manager & ESXI Environment.