Network & Network Data Operations Engineer

Long-term project delivered for a European Union organization. Mission-critical production environment using ITIL & SAFe Agile Frameworks with an Automation-First culture.

• Minimum 5 years of experience managing enterprise Load Balancing platforms.
• Minimum 2 years hands-on experience with F5 VELOS or modern F5 BIG-IP environments.
• Proven experience with infrastructure automation and operating mission-critical production environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills under pressure.
• Accountability and proactive approach to automation.
• Agile and ITIL mindset.

Technical Stack (Required):

• Load Balancing and Protocols: F5 VELOS, BIG-IP LTM, High Availability / DSC, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, DNS.
• Automation and Tools: Ansible, Git, GitLab CI/CD, REST APIs, YAML, JSON, Linux.
• Data and Configuration: NetBox, CMDB concepts.

Desirable Skills:

• Declarative Onboarding (DO), Terraform, Docker.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk.

• Maintain and administer F5 VELOS chassis, BIG-IP tenants, and LTM modules including DSC/HA, Virtual Servers, Pools, iRules, and SSL Profiles.
• Manage software upgrades, backups, and configuration validation.
• Resolve Level 2 incidents within SLAs and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Support Major Incident Management and participate in on-call rotations.
• Provide coaching and knowledge transfer to L1 support.
• Develop Ansible playbooks and build GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automation of deployments and compliance reporting.
• Maintain NetBox as source of truth CMDB and validate data consistency prior to deployments.
• Analyze platform health and performance; investigate alarms; support capacity planning.
• Improve monitoring dashboards to reduce alert noise.
• Produce Low-Level Designs, Standard Operating Procedures, and Operational Runbooks using Markdown within GitLab.