Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced F5 Technical Design Authority (TDA) / Principal Solution Architect to provide technical leadership, architecture governance, and strategic direction for enterprise application delivery and security platforms.

The successful candidate will act as the design authority for F5 technologies across complex multi-datacentre, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business and security requirements. The role requires deep expertise across F5 BIG-IP, network security, application delivery, automation, cloud networking, and enterprise architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture and governance of enterprise F5 platforms.

Produce and review High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), build guides, migration plans and operational standards.

Provide technical leadership throughout project lifecycles covering design, implementation, migration, upgrade and optimisation activities.

Lead technical workshops with customers, service providers, application teams and infrastructure stakeholders.

Act as technical escalation point for complex F5 and application delivery issues.

Define application delivery and security standards across multiple datacentres and cloud environments.

Design highly available and disaster recovery capable solutions.

Ensure solutions comply with security, risk, operational and regulatory requirements.

Mentor engineering and operational teams on F5 best practices.

Provide roadmap and strategic guidance for ADC, application security and network security technologies.

Essential F5 Experience





Candidates must demonstrate extensive hands-on experience across:

F5 BIG-IP Platform

Advanced troubleshooting and packet analysis

F5 migrations, upgrades and platform consolidation projects

Enterprise-scale F5 deployments supporting mission-critical applications.

F5 Development & Automation

Advanced iRules development iControl REST API

F5 automation frameworks

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD integration

Git-based configuration management

Network Architecture Skills

Designing solutions

Solid experience designing and troubleshooting:

TCP/IP

HTTP / HTTPS

SSL / TLS

DNS

DHCP

NTP

Routing and Switching

Enterprise WAN and Datacentre networking.

Security Experience

Candidates should possess strong experience with:

F5 Advanced WAF / ASM

F5 AFM

DDoS protection

OWASP Top 10 mitigation

Web application security

Identity and authentication technologies

SAML

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Zero Trust architectures

Firewall architecture and policy design

VPN technologies

Threat prevention

Security hardening and compliance.

Multi-Vendor Network Security Experience

Optional additional experience

F5 Engine X The successful candidate should have experience:

Acting as Design Authority or Technical Authority.

Approving architectural designs.

Producing architecture standards and reusable design patterns.

Reviewing solution designs from delivery teams.

Managing risk and technical governance.

Supporting large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.

Working within highly regulated environments such as Banking, Financial Services, Telecoms or Critical Infrastructure

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