F5 Engineer

About the role

The Air Force Space & Intel Business Group of SAIC is seeking a F5 Engineer to support a transformational infrastructure program for DCSA. SAIC is proud to be supporting DCSA in safeguarding our nation's information.

Responsibilities

• Deploys, configures, and manages F5 BIG-IP appliances, including LTM, ASM, APM, and GTM modules.
• Develops and maintains iRules, SSL offloading, health monitors, and traffic policies with the goal of optimizing load balancing and application delivery performance.
• Supports management of network infrastructure operations, maintenance and administration for non-virtual and virtual systems in multiple enclaves and data centers, regional field offices, field offices and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) GovCloud environments.
• Researches, maintains, and applies expertise in emerging technologies, industry developments, trends, best practices, and principles of network management.
• Conducts day-to-day network operations and administration activities.
• Ensures infrastructure is secure, available, and optimized.
• Improves scalability, surge, and automation capabilities.
• Performs trend analysis to ensure capacity and performance necessary for current and future mission demands and surge operations.
• Manages asset life cycle maintenance, coordinating schedules and complying with end-of-life/end-of-support timelines.
• Ensures sufficient bench stock of equipment to sustain and optimize network operations.
• Supports assessment and authorization processes for deploying network systems and associated equipment.
• Performs regular weekly/monthly patching and security updates for network systems and devices, testing patches prior to deployment.
• Hardsens network systems and associated equipment according to DOW DISA STIG guidance.
• Conducts vulnerability assessment audits.
• Identifies and resolves network problems, using monitoring and bandwidth management solutions and coordination with third-party providers.
• Plans and executes backups and recovery operations.
• Facilitates change requests through the configuration control board.
• Supports compilation, implementation, maintenance and archiving of documentation such as network diagrams, plans, designs, and architecture documentation for all network enclaves (DEL 78), network operations/administration SOPs, a Network Operations Runbook, site-to-site VPN mapping, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instances mapping, and rack/elevation diagrams mapping, Access Control Lists (ACLs), network management trend analysis reports, accreditations, Configuration Management, and change control documentation.
• Evaluates network product usability, affordability, functionality, security, and performance to assess suitability for integration into classified environment.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science.
• Nine (9) years of relevant experience. An additional four years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Applicable Network Environment (NE) Certification; Big-IP LTM, Big-IP DNS, Big-IP ASM, and/or Big-IP APM.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Intermediate or Advanced certification, being one of the following certifications CEH, Cloud+, GCIH, GICSP, GSEC, Security+, SSCP, SecurityX/CASP+, CCNA, CCNP Security, CCSP, GCED, GCIA, GCLD, GDSA, GFACT.

Pay

Target salary range $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Schedule

Full-Time