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 robust 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
• Strong 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 (India)
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