F BIG IP Application Delivery Engineer📣 Job Ad

About the Role

CoorB is seeking an F BIG IP Application Delivery Engineer to join our team in Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This is a contract position focused on the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of critical application delivery and global traffic management services.

Role Summary

The successful candidate will be responsible for leveraging F5 BIG-IP LTM and GTM/DNS technologies to ensure business applications maintain high availability, security, performance, and resilience. This role covers both data center and disaster recovery environments, contributing to robust and reliable application connectivity across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP LTM services, including virtual servers, pools, nodes, health monitors, profiles, persistence, SNAT/NAT, and SSL/TLS offloading.
• Configure and support F5 BIG-IP GTM/DNS services, covering wide IPs, listeners, topology records, load balancing methods, health checks, and DNS-based failover.
• Develop, test, and maintain iRules to support advanced traffic management, application routing, header manipulation, redirects, and custom application delivery requirements.
• Troubleshoot application delivery issues related to latency, availability, SSL/TLS certificates, DNS resolution, persistence, routing, and load balancing behavior.
• Support global server load balancing and disaster recovery failover scenarios across multiple data centers.
• Monitor platform health, traffic patterns, capacity, SSL certificate expiry, and service availability to ensure stable application delivery.
• Plan and execute BIG-IP software upgrades, configuration changes, certificate renewals, and high-availability pair maintenance in line with change management processes.
• Maintain secure configurations, configuration backups, operational documentation, diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with application, network, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver reliable and secure application connectivity.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, maintenance windows, DR testing, and continuous service improvement activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in application delivery, load balancing, network services, or infrastructure operations.
• Demonstrated hands-on production experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM and GTM/DNS.
• Experience supporting enterprise application environments across data center, hybrid, or multi-site infrastructure.

Required Skills and Certifications

• Strong understanding of SSL/TLS, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, load balancing concepts, health monitoring, and high availability.
• F5-CTS LTM, F5-CTS GTM/DNS, or equivalent F5 certifications.
• Experience with iControl REST, automation, scripting, or configuration management tools such as Python or Ansible.
• Exposure to F5 ASM/WAF or F5 APM integration.
• Experience supporting SSL certificate lifecycle management and PKI-related activities.
• Familiarity with SIEM, monitoring, observability, or log analysis platforms.

Work Environment

This is a contract position based in Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The role involves collaboration with various technical teams to ensure seamless application connectivity and performance.