Brave Futures is hiring an experienced F5 BIG-IP Consultant for an opportunity with one of our global clients.
Locations: Bengaluru, Mumbai or Hyderabad
Joining preference: Immediate or short-notice candidates
Mandatory certification: Active F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) – Exam 201
Position Overview
This is an F5 BIG-IP-focused position requiring strong hands-on experience in BIG-IP administration, configuration, production support and troubleshooting, along with practical Kubernetes exposure.
CI/CD, programming and DevOps automation are not primary requirements for this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure, administer and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP platforms.
- Manage BIG-IP LTM components, including virtual servers, pools, nodes, health monitors, SSL profiles, SNAT, persistence and load-balancing methods.
- Support BIG-IP GTM/DNS, Wide IPs and traffic-management policies.
- Configure and troubleshoot iRules, SSL/TLS and high-availability environments.
- Support ASM/Advanced WAF and APM environments where applicable.
- Diagnose application-connectivity, traffic-flow, SSL-handshake and performance issues.
- Support the deployment or operation of F5 components in Kubernetes environments.
- Work with Kubernetes Services, ingress, application routing, load balancing and service connectivity.
- Perform BIG-IP upgrades,
patching, backup, restore and failover activities.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security and network teams during deployments and production incidents.
- Maintain configuration documents and operational procedures.
Mandatory Requirements
- Active F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) – Exam 201 certification.
- Solid hands-on experience in F5 BIG-IP administration and troubleshooting.
- Strong BIG-IP LTM experience.
- Experience with BIG-IP GTM/DNS.
- Practical Kubernetes experience involving ingress, service connectivity, load balancing or application traffic.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, SNAT/NAT and high availability.
- Experience troubleshooting production application and traffic-related incidents.
Preferred Skills
- ASM/Advanced WAF and APM
- iRules and traffic policies
- F5 Container Ingress Services
- NGINX or Kubernetes Ingress Controller
- OpenShift
- BIG-IP CLI and TMSH
- ADC migration experience
- Linux administration
- Basic exposure to Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform or CI/CD tools
Important To apply, please share your updated resume, current location, current and expected CTC, notice period, and F5 201 certification validity at
[email protected]
📌 BIG-IP Consultant – Kubernetes (Bengaluru)
🏢 Brave
📍 Bengaluru