Sr. F5 BIG-IP Engineer (F5)

Location: Washington, DC, United States

Salary: $170,000–$250,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides technology services and builds teams focused on delivering solutions for government and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Configure and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP virtual servers, pools, health monitors, profiles, traffic policies, iRules, and SSL/TLS services.
• Engineer and optimize application delivery and load-balancing services across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Monitor performance and resolve latency, capacity, availability, and network configuration issues using advanced analytics.
• Maintain high-availability and failover configurations for mission-critical applications.
• Integrate F5 services with DNS, security platforms, applications, certificate services, and enterprise monitoring tools.
• Automate configuration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance using REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, Python, or PowerShell.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant enterprise network, systems, site reliability, or application delivery engineering experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience administering and engineering F5 BIG-IP application delivery and load-balancing services.
• Experience with high availability, failover, iRules or equivalent traffic-management logic, SSL/TLS, performance monitoring, and application acceleration.
• Experience integrating F5 services with DNS, network security, identity and certificate services, infrastructure platforms, and monitoring solutions.
• Experience with automation using REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, or comparable tools.
• Must satisfy applicable DoD 8140 requirements for the 451 System Administrator work role. An active Top Secret clearance is preferred but not required.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in mission-critical government or enterprise environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and dependent care.
• Professional development, company-paid training or certifications, wellness programs, and employee assistance.
• Potential performance-based, referral, and additional compensation.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
• Employment requires verification of identity and eligibility to work in the United States.