F5 Engineer

F5 Engineer focuses on planning & preparation: review the existing f5 configuration (including qkview analysis), identify migration risks, and produce the migration plan, runbook with rollback steps, and.

What the role involves

• Planning & Preparation: Review the existing F5 configuration (including QKView analysis), identify migration risks, and produce the migration plan, runbook with rollback steps, and.
• Cutover: Lead two out-of-hours change windows (4 hours each, one per DC), including failover, verification, and post-cutover testing.
• Post-Cutover Support: Up to 4 hours of next-business-day support after each cutover.
• Knowledge Transfer: Deliver a 4-hour session covering operations, administration, backup/restore, and troubleshooting.

Skills and requirements

• Proven F5 BIG-IP migration experience, ideally iSeries to rSeries or equivalent hardware refresh.
• Strong working knowledge of F5OS: tenant creation, licensing, platform management.
• Hands-on experience with LTM, DNS (GTM), APM, and ASM.
• Experience migrating vCMP guest configurations to F5OS tenants.

Confirmed role details

• A short, high-impact 21-day contract for an experienced F5 engineer ready to own a full platform migration from legacy i5800 appliances to the r.
• Configure HA failover, SYSLOG/SNMP monitoring, and remote authentication (LDAP/AD/TACACS/RADIUS).

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

• The engagement is due to commence at the end of August and is expected to be outside IR35.
• The environment runs BIG-IP v17.1+ across HA pairs provisioned with LTM, DNS, APM, and ASM.