Job Title: F5 VELOS Implementation Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled F5 VELOS Implementation Engineer to lead the architecture, deployment, and migration of next-generation Application Delivery Controller (ADC) hardware platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of F5 VELOS chassis systems. This includes configuring the initial platform layer (F5OS), partitioning chassis assets, and migrating legacy workloads—such as F5 VIPRION configurations—into newly provisioned modern BIG-IP tenants. You will collaborate closely with network infrastructure, application, and security teams to optimize high-performance, containerized application-delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

Chassis Initialization: Perform initial physical setup, hardware deployment, and configuration of the F5 VELOS System Controllers using the CLI and setup wizard.
Platform Configuration: Establish baseline management networking infrastructure, including floating management IPs, DNS, NTP, and AAA/LDAP authentication.
Chassis Partitioning: Create and manage isolated chassis software partitions. Allocate blade resources, specify interfaces, and map high-availability (HA) requirements.
Tenant Deployment: Import tenant software images, configure VLANs, and provision specialized BIG-IP microservice instances.
Workload Migration: Plan and execute migrations of existing network workloads from legacy F5 VIPRION systems to VELOS-hosted virtual environments.
Module Management: Configure core traffic services inside individual tenants, including Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS), Access Policy Manager(APM) and Advanced WAF.
Performance Tuning: Optimize high-throughput Layer 4–7 traffic, SSL/TLS offloading parameters, and hardware accelerated encryption.
Documentation Delivery: Draft explicit High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), migration manifests, and configuration backups.

Required Technical Skills & Qualifications

F5 Core Technical Expertise

Proven engineering experience working with F5 VELOS CX-Series platforms or F5 rSeries appliances.
Deep configuration knowledge of F5OS (Chassis and Partition management layer) and its microservices-based architecture.
Hands-on experience deploying BIG-IP software modules (LTM, DNS/GTM, APM, Advanced WAF).
Strong scripting background writing advanced F5 iRules or Local Traffic Policies for data streams.

Networking & Systems Infrastructure

Mastery of core networking concepts, including TCP/IP, L2/L3 routing, and VLAN trunking.
Familiarity with container orchestration concepts (Kubernetes, OpenShift) powering the internal chassis framework.
Expertise in traffic capture diagnostics using tcpdump, Wireshark, and native F5OS platform logging features.

Professional Experience & Certifications

Experience: Minimum 5+ years of dedicated network engineering or deployment experience focused directly on F5 solutions.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or an equivalent technical field.

Preferred Qualities

Strong analytical problem-solving skills for debugging complex Layer 7 application interactions.
Comfort executing mission-critical platform migrations inside scheduled off-hours maintenance windows.
Clear documentation skills used to summarize configurations for handoff to operations personnel.