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.
- Strong hands-on experience in F5 BIG-IP administration and troubleshooting.
- Solid 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 The candidate does not need to be a specialist across every F5 module unless specifically required for the project. However, the candidate should understand F5 BIG-IP and application-delivery concepts and be capable of supporting F5 integration within DevOps, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. To apply, please share your updated resume, current location, current and expected CTC, notice period, and F5 201 certification validity at
[email protected].
📌 BIGIP Consultant - Kubernetes (Bengaluru)
🏢 Brave Futures
📍 Bengaluru