Description
Prosource.it is a managed IT services provider focusing on infrastructure, operational and project requirements across the corporate enterprise market.
Our global office presence extends from Aberdeen and London in the UK to Houston, Calgary and Dubai. We have a workforce of staff and contractors worldwide and continually have opportunities in challenging and rewarding roles.
To support our growth we are looking to recruit a F5 BIG-IP SME/LAN Engineer for a contract position in London. Candidates will have considerable experience in F5 BIG-IP administration as the role holder will be responsible for the build, management, administration, maintenance and support of F5 BIG-IP Chassis environments. In addition they will work with the respective teams to test, and deploy solution configurations on the load balancing platforms.
Candidates must possess the following skills and experience;
- Extensive experience in implementing and managing F5 BIG-IP Viprions and F5 Virtual Editions. In addition to load balancing, this includes GTM, APM, ASM, and custom iRule development.
- 3+ years of hands on experience with BIG-IP environment utilizing two or more of the following: GTM, LTM, AFM, APM, or ASM.
- Extensive experience with APM Including customizing GUI TCL configurations within APM.
- 2+ years of experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of large network consisting of Load balancing, WAN, LAN, and VPNs.
- Experience in configuring advance load balancing algorithm like (but not limited to) cookie persistence, priority group, etc.
- Experience with layer-2, layer-3, and/or layer-4 network protocols and technologies, TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP, NFSv4.x, SMB etc.
- Detailed understanding of the OSI layer and routing concepts.
- Extensive experience in performing preventative maintenance, including the installation of hot fixes and version upgrades.
- Experience in configuring and managing F5 Web Accelerator module and Application Security Module (ASM) technology or with similar/competing ADC and Security product solutions.
- Extensive experience in implementing and configuring SSL certificates.
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory, LDAP, RSA, DNS, Networking and security principles.
- Good understanding of networking protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP and FTP.
- Extensive knowledge and skills in troubleshooting and tools.
- Knowledge of VMware and Cloud infrastructures.
prosource.it is committed to recognising and rewarding hard work and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.