Location: India

Experience: 6+ Years

F5 Certification: F5 CA (101 & 201) Mandatory

Travel: Candidate should be open to customer-site travel as required

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior F5 Consultant with strong expertise across F5 BIG-IP, Service Provider networking, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud-native infrastructure.

The consultant will work closely with customers to design, implement, troubleshoot, and optimize F5 solutions across enterprise and Service Provider environments. The role requires a strong combination of traditional F5 expertise and modern containerized / cloud-native networking experience.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide technical consulting for implementation, configuration, and maintenance of F5 BIG-IP solutions.
- Design and support complex application delivery and networking solutions across enterprise and Service Provider environments.
- Work on F5 BIG-IP CGNAT solutions for IPv4 address preservation and IPv6 transition.
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot BIG-IP DNS / GTM solutions for high availability, performance, and secure DNS services.
- Support containerized and cloud-native environments using Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- Implement and support F5 solutions such as Container Ingress Services (CIS) and Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF).
- Work with Docker images, YAML configurations, deployment plans, and Kubectl.
- Support provisioning and management of container clusters.
- Perform solution architecture, design, deployment, testing, troubleshooting, and technical documentation.
- Work on routing and networking technologies including BGP, OSPF, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, and UDP.
- Troubleshoot complex application, network, DNS, SSL/TLS, security, and load-balancing issues.
- Work directly with customers and internal technical teams during implementation and migration projects.




- Prepare technical documentation, implementation plans, status updates, and solution recommendations.

Mandatory Skills

- Minimum 6+ years of relevant experience in network / systems infrastructure, architecture, design, or application delivery.
- Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP.
- Strong experience with LTM and GTM / BIG-IP DNS.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / K8s.
- Experience with OpenShift and containerized environments.
- Experience or strong exposure to CGNAT / Carrier Grade NAT.
- Experience with F5 CIS and/or F5 CNF / cloud-native F5 solutions.
- Strong understanding of Service Provider / Telecom networking environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of:
- Docker
- Kubectl
- YAML
- Container clusters
- Strong networking fundamentals:
- TCP/IP
- IPv4 / IPv6
- BGP
- OSPF
- Static and dynamic routing
- Robust DNS knowledge, including DNSSEC.
- Experience in customer-facing technical consulting / professional services

Good to Have

- F5 ASM / Advanced WAF
- BIG-IQ
- Firewalls, WAF, IDS / IPS
- Linux / UNIX
- SSL/TLS, PKI, OpenSSL
- BIND / named
- VPN technologies such as IPsec, SSL VPN, GRE, MPLS
- Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS, SAML
- Python, TCL, Shell or Perl scripting
- AWS / Azure / cloud platform exposure
- Automation using Ansible or similar tools
- Security certifications such as CISSP, Security+, GIAC, OSCP or equivalent

Ideal Candidate Profile The ideal candidate will combine strong F5 BIG-IP expertise with Kubernetes/OpenShift and Service Provider networking exposure, and should be comfortable working on both traditional application delivery infrastructure and modern cloud-native / containerized environments.

Candidates with experience across F5 CGNAT, BIG-IP DNS/GTM, CIS/CNF, OpenShift, Kubernetes and telecom/service-provider environments will be highly preferred.

📌 SeniorConsultant – Service Provider & Cloud Native Solutions (Delhi)
🏢 Brave
📍 Delhi