Network Support Apprenticeship
Network Support Apprenticeship
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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.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud data centre and softwaredefined networking deployments to successfully deliver applications to anyone anywhere at any time. F5s products allow our customers to build a dynamic infrastructure that aligns their IT capabilities with their evolving business needs. F5 creates a unified and flexible architecture that enables our customers to simplify management reduce costs and deliver faster and better service to their customers and employees.
Our Opportunity:
This is an exciting opportunity to combine professional training with real working experience and join an industryleading company in a unique role. The company is currently seeking a highly motivated Network Engineer Apprentice to start as soon as possible. F5s products allow our customers to build a dynamic infrastructure that aligns their IT capabilities with their evolving business needs. F5 creates a unified and flexible architecture that enables our customers to simplify management reduce costs and deliver faster and better service to their customers and employees. F5 Networks Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
The Role:
As a Network Engineer Apprentice you will work as part of a dynamic highly technical team on a number of F5s technologies. Our engineers assist many top companies across the globe in a variety of industries on infrastructure that is vital to their operational functions. The apprentice would have the opportunity to learn shadow and assist the engineers in a variety of tasks and projects. There are many opportunities to specialize in F5s diverse range of solutions and become Subject Matter Experts in multiple fields. This role opens the door to additional support positions or many other career choices within F5 and beyond.
Day to Day You Will:
- Learn about F5 solutions and tech stack
- Reproduce and test realworld scenarios in F5s Labs
- Gain insight into F5 technology with handson configuration and troubleshooting
- Work with virtual environments and set up VLANs
- Diagnose and fix network issues
You will improve the following skills and experience during this role:
- Handson technical experience with internetworking/data centre operations including WAN operations Network Protocols TCP/IP OSI Model UNIX or Linux (e.g. Redhat) operating systems Wireshark/ Tshark/ HTTPwatch tools VMware
- Network Security (e.g. Web Application Security AAA VPN DDoS Malware Application Firewalls etc.)
- Troubleshooting and Customer handling
Expected qualifications skills attitude and behaviors of the Network Engineer Apprentice:
- Bachelors degree in technical field (must have graduated)
- Keen to learn
- Logical and creative thinking skills
- Analytical and problemsolving skills
- Good verbal and written communication
- Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of situations
- At least a basic understanding of Linux
- Ability to work independently and to take responsibility
- A thorough and organized approach
The program is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of network basics indepth coaching on computer network communications and practical training in realworld scenarios. Throughout the apprenticeship you will develop the skills needed to handle customer calls prepare for industry certifications and become proficient in F5 and related networking technology tasks.
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.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
Employment Type
Full-Time
