F5 Engineer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

 Introduction

Make a difference for national security by joining a team of dedicated IT professionals who will sustain, modernize and transform the enterprise IT capabilities of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).  The Air Force Space & Intel Business Group of SAIC is seeking a F5 Engineer to support a transformational infrastructure program for DCSA.

SAIC is proud to be supporting DCSA in safeguarding our nation's information.  DCSA is the designated oversight authority on the accreditation of classified facilities, information systems, and the insider threat program.  This involves security oversight of more than 10,000 companies and approximately 13,000 facilities involved in classified work throughout the DoW and 31 Federal agencies.

Specifically, on the DCSA One IT program, SAIC provides enterprise IT solutions that deliver highly secured and adaptable IT infrastructure, provides customer support, an cutting-edge technologies that support operations and advance the DCSA mission under a single IT environment (i.e., One IT).

Job Description

- Deploys, configures, and manages F5 BIG-IP appliances, including LTM, ASM, APM, and GTM modules.
- Develops and maintains iRules, SSL offloading, health monitors, and traffic policies with the goal of optimizing load balancing and application delivery performance.
- Supports management of network infrastructure operations, maintenance and administration for non-virtual and virtual systems in multiple enclaves and data centers, regional field offices, field offices and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) GovCloud environments, as part of the overall strategic objective of the DCSA IT modernization and One IT initiatives to provide an improved flexible and evolving enterprise IT environment to support the DCSA mission IAW with DCSA and DoW policies and procedures and commonly utilized industry best practices.
- Researches, maintains, and applies expertise in emerging technologies, industry developments, trends, best practices, and principles of network management.
- Conducts day-to-day network operations and administration activities. 
- Ensures infrastructure is secure, available, and optimized. Improves scalability, surge, and automation capabilities.
- Performs trend analysis to ensure capacity and performance necessary for current and future mission demands and surge operations.
- Manages asset life cycle maintenance, coordinating schedules and complying with end-of-life/end-of-support timelines.
- Ensures sufficient bench stock of equipment to sustain and optimize network operations.
- Supports assessment and authorization processes for deploying network systems and associated equipment.
- Performs regular weekly/monthly patching and security updates for network systems and devices, testing patches prior to deployment.
- Hardens network systems and associated equipment according to DOW DISA STIG guidance.
- Conducts vulnerability assessment audits.
- Identifies and resolves network problems, using monitoring and bandwidth management solutions and coordination with third-party providers.
- Plans and executes backups and recovery operations.
- Facilitates change requests through the configuration control board.
- Supports compilation, implementation, maintenance and archiving of documentation such as network diagrams, plans, designs, and architecture documentation for all network enclaves (DEL 78), network operations/administration SOPs, a Network Operations Runbook, site-to-site VPN mapping, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instances mapping, and rack/elevation diagrams mapping, Access Control Lists (ACLs), network management trend analysis reports, accreditations, Configuration Management, and change control documentation.
- Evaluates network product usability, affordability, functionality, security, and performance to assess suitability for integration into classified environment.

SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

It is required that the F5 Engineer have the following qualifications:

- BA/BS in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science.
- Nine (9) years of relevant experience.  An additional four years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- DoD 8140 Network Operations Specialist (441) Intermediate or Advanced certification, being one of the following certifications: CEH, Cloud+, GCIH, GICSP, GSEC, Security+, SSCP, SecurityX/CASP+, CCNA, CCNP Security, CCSP, GCED, GCIA, GCLD, GDSA, GFACT.
- Applicable Network Environment (NE) Certification; Big-IP LTM, Big-IP DNS, Big-IP ASM, and/or Big-IP APM.
- Active Top Secret clearance.