Technology Platform Engineer - F5 BIG-IP Specialist

Technology Platform Engineer

Project Role : Technology Platform Engineer
Project Role Description : Creates production and non-production cloud environments using the proper software tools such as a platform for a project or product. Deploys the automation pipeline and automates environment creation and configuration.
Must have skills : Network Infrastructures
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
We are seeking an experienced F5 GTM & LTM Engineer with strong expertise in application delivery, load balancing, DNS traffic management, and security solutions using F5 BIG-IP platforms. The candidate will be responsible for design, implementation, migration, troubleshooting, optimization, and operational support of enterprise F5 infrastructure including LTM, GTM/DNS, SSL offloading, high availability, and traffic engineering across enterprise and cloud environments.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Design, deploy, configure, and support F5 BIG-IP LTM, F5 BIG-IP GTM/DNS, High Availability (HA) environments.
Configure and manage Virtual Servers, Pools and pool members, Health monitors, SNAT/NAT, SSL, TCP profiles and irules.
Implement global traffic management solutions using GTM/DNS.
Configure Wide IPs, DNS listeners, load balancing, custom health monitors, and GTM pools.
Perform URL redirection and traffic steering using iRules and GTM policies.
Manage SSL offloading, SSL bridging, and certificate lifecycle management.
Troubleshoot Application availability issues, SSL handshake failures, DNS resolution problems, Traffic routing issues & High latency and failover issues.
Configure and maintain One-arm and two-arm deployments, Routed and transparent modes & VLANs and trunk interfaces.
Support application onboarding and cloud migration activities.
Implement security hardening and best practices on F5 appliances.
Perform software upgrades, UCS backups/restores, and license management.
Work with network, security, server, and application teams during deployments and incidents.
Automate operational tasks using APIs, Ansible, Terraform, or scripting.
Prepare SOPs, architecture diagrams, RCA documents, and operational documentation.
Professional & Technical Skills:
F5 Technologies
Strong hands-on experience with:
o F5 BIG-IP LTM
o F5 BIG-IP GTM/DNS.
LTM Expertise
Virtual servers
Load balancing methods
Persistence profiles
SNAT AutoMap vs SNAT pools
SSL offloading and bridging
TCP/HTTP profiles
Health monitors
iRules and traffic policies
One-arm vs two-arm deployments
Routed mode configurations
GTM Expertise
Wide IPs
GTM pools
DNS listeners
Topology load balancing
DNS persistence
Delegation and DNS integration
Data centre failover
LDNS concepts
DNS Express basics
Certifications (Required/Preferred):
F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA)
F5 Certified Technology Specialist (CTS-LTM / CTS-DNS)
AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
CCNA/CCNP

Additional Information:
The candidate should have minimum 8-12 years of experience in Big IP F5 GTM/LTM Operations Support and deployment.
This position is based at our Bangaluru/Hyderabad office.
A 15-year full-time education is required.
Flexible working in client time zone.