Network Engineer - F5 / Fortinet / Ingress-Egress

Summary: The Network Engineer role focuses on migrating and replacing F5 and Fortinet functionalities with AWS-native solutions. The position requires designing configurations for Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Network Load Balancers (NLB), as well as implementing interim solutions if deadlines are at risk. The role is remote and spans a duration of 16 weeks. Candidates should possess deep technical knowledge of F5 and AWS networking components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze F5 iRules inventory and classify by migration complexity
• Design ALB/NLB configuration to replace F5 functions
• Design Inspection VPC pattern for L7/L4 traffic inspection
• Migrate iRules to ALB listener rules or equivalent AWS-native configurations
• Assess and implement interim F5 solution if December deadline is at risk
• Design AWS Network Firewall rule groups to replace Fortinet
• Design reporting parity for Fortinet replacement
• Design north-south and east-west traffic flow architecture
• Validate functional parity for F5 and Fortinet replacements

Key Skills:

• F5 BIG-IP - deep understanding of iRules, virtual servers, pools
• ALB/NLB - advanced listener rules, target groups, WAF integration
• AWS Network Firewall - stateful/stateless rule groups
• L7 traffic inspection - URL routing, header manipulation, URI rewriting
• Inspection VPC patterns - Gateway Load Balancer or centralized inspection
• TLS/mTLS - certificate management, termination points
• Terraform - ALB/NLB/Network Firewall module development
• F5 to cloud-native migration experience strongly preferred

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: US

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT