F5 Systems Engineer - TS/SCI

GDIT is your place.  Make it your own by discovering new ways to apply the latest technologies securely and expertly.  By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you’ll become a critical part in how we successfully solve our clients’ biggest challenges, deliver on promise, and innovate the client’s physical/virtual infrastructure for the future.  Our work depends on an F5 Engineer joining our team to support Government activities in Sterling, VA or Annapolis Junction, MD. 

At GDIT, we foster a people-focused and customer-centric environment in delivering Network Engineering Services.  As an F5 Engineer supporting the Government, you will be responsible for traffic management, F5 Local Traffic Manager, F5 Global Traffic, Tool Command Language (TcL), and more.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Managing the configuration on multiple physical and virtual F5 across multiple data centers.
• Participating in the development and support of customer technical requirements.
• Planning, designing, developing, implementing, and operating F5 products such as LTM, ASM, BIG-IQ, and APM.
• Providing clear technical documentation and written procedures for issues identified and addressed.
• Proposing and implementing system enhancements that improves the performance and reliability of the network security infrastructure.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting platform and OS based problems: network security infrastructure, and connectivity issues.
• Performing launch testing for new software releases and the introduction of new features.
• Collaborating with different technology towers to achieve common goals.
• Applying capacity planning configuration changes as needed.
• Addressing performance, scalability, and service architecture administration issues.
• Coordinating equipment orders including physical or virtual appliances, as well as upgrading, monitoring, testing, and servicing the systems as needed.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a CI poly
• Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Security
• Bachelor of Science Degree, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination (10+ yrs) of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Must have the F5 201 certification or obtain the certification within 3 months of hire date.
• 7+ years of relevant F5 experience with F5 LTM, ASM, BIG-IQ, and/or APM administration and life cycle management including experience with advanced iRule creation and troubleshooting
• Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of technology towers i.e.: Storage, Virtualization, Intel, Networking, Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting network systems, switching, and routing protocol standards such as: TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, SDN, and 802.1x.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP in a large multi-site environment
• Knowledge of risk and controls landscape, ensuring company-wide standards are met