NGINX/BIG-IP consultant
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Job Description
At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Our Employees Are valued and empowered. They are collaborative and innovative in their approach and passionate about their work. They are reliable credible and have a high level of integrity. They value diversity and are committed to a global approach.
About The F5 BIGIP and NGINX Consultant Team
The F5 Consultant is a clientfacing engineer working collaboratively with clients guiding them on the use of F5 BIGIP and NGINX solutions in order to meet business objectives or overcome problems. They are leaders with vision who provide tactical mentorship regarding architecture implementation and configuration of the core F5 BIGIP and NGINX products.
The F5 BIGIP/ NGINX Consultant is an innovative engineer working in partnership with our clients teaching them how to use NGINX solutions to meet their business objectives. They will provide strategic mentorship and domain expertise to customers with regard to the implementation of our products. They understand and articulate goals and critical success factors for the project and engage in collaborative dialogue to ensure client needs are met. We are seeking a highly skilled BIGIP consultant who will be eager to learn and grow skills on our NGINX platform.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides technical mentorship to customers onsite and/or remotely regarding the implementation configuration and maintenance of the F5 BIGIP and NGINX core products independently or with a team.
- Performs as project lead for systems architecture solution design deployment testing problem identification troubleshooting and documentation.
- Maintains working proficiency in F5 products and technologies through selfdirected and formal training.
- Engages with multiple F5 teams including F5 Support F5 Product Sales and F5 Professional Services Sales.
- Proactively seek opportunities to improve processes tools documentation and skills.
- Continuously collaborate with your colleagues.
- Study hard to acquire and maintain required Certifications
- Most meaningfully keep our customers satisfied through demonstrating strong technical knowledge and appropriate communication.
Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of substantial experience with a focus on architecture and design of network or systems infrastructure performance and management
- Proven understanding of technologies such as firewalling application availability and security web gateways authentication/authorization encryption VPNs and network architecture.
- Proven ability to articulate and transfer sophisticated ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.
- Selfmotivated and adaptable to changing environments.
- Proven strong written communication presentation writing project prioritizing and user documentation skills.
- Experience leading multiple concurrent network and security projects.
- Israeli Government security clearance
- Hebrew and English are a must. Additional European languages are extremely useful.
- Highly valued: Certifications such as K8S Azure AWS GCP and RH and F5 certifications
Technical Requirements:
- Operational knowledge of Linux and UNIX and Windows variants.
- Firm grasp of cryptographic concepts and implementations (OpenSSL DNSSEC SSL PKI Certificate Authorities and Secret Management.
- Functional Knowledge of AAArelated technologies: Identity Providers such as Active Directory (AD) LDAP NTLM Kerberos SAML RADIUS DIAMETER and TACACS OpenID Connect JWT Authentication Okta.
- Experience with BIND SSH daemons and clients tcpdump snoop ethereal/Wireshark and other packet sniffing software or products.
- Solid grasp of IIS Apache WebSphere WebLogic Oracle or similar web and application platforms.
- Scripting and development experience in F5 iRules Unix Shell Perl Python JavaScript Knowledge of Regular Expressions
- Experience on F5 BIGIP LTM GTM AFM APM ASM/AWAF etc
- Highly valued: Operational experience with NGINX Plus and/or NGINX Open Source. The successful candidate is expected to get up to speed in this area relatively fast. Goes without saying that you are not alone with this but we will train you and youll be mentored. Its a team effort.
- Highly valued: Operational knowhow with containerization and container management (Docker Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift Docker Swarm) in both onpremise and cloudbased environments (Google Cloud/GKE MS Azure AWS)
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane approximately 75 % of the time spent traveling and may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working (under locale Covid19 guidelines).
- The job may be performed onsite at a customer facility or data center or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.
- Work hours will correspond to our customers schedule so the role may require work outside of core business hours including early mornings late evenings overnight weekends and/or public holidays.
- We will expect you to be flexible. You must be prepared to work different shifts e.g. 10am6pm or 8am4pm local time or again to cover weekends (Saturday and Sunday). Occasionally international travel may be required (e.g. annual team meeting)
Mandatory Requirements:
- Hebrew English
- Location Israel
- Israeli Government security clearance
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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be allinclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full-Time
