F5 Network & Systems Engineer

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range:

$140,700 - $178,392 Annually for the SES.2 level
$168,780 - $214,032 Annually for the SES.3 level

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage.  An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We have an opening for an F5 Network and Systems Engineer. You will provide technical layer 7 application support and systems administration for information systems existing in a heterogeneous private cloud environment to solve a variety of moderately complex technical problems. This position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division within the Computing Directorate, supporting the Livermore Information Technology (LivIT) program.

This position will be filled at either the SES.2 or SES.3 level depending on your qualifications. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if you are selected at the higher level.

Business needs dictate that this position requires an on-site presence multiple days a week. Therefore, telecommuting options will be limited.

You will

• Manage a private cloud application load-balancing service that spans three NNSA sites to provide global and local layer-7 high availability, and application security services to enterprise applications, collaboration tool suites, databases, mission applications, services, servers, and core infrastructure componentry.
• Collaborate with application and service owners to help architect highly available and secure application/service load-balancing solutions and application infrastructures.
• Collaborate with program network & security engineers to ensure the F5 configurations remain consistent with the global network architecture and security posture.
• Leverage orchestration/automation utilities (e.g. F5 BigIQ, AS3, Ansible, etc.) for distributing and enforcing standard configurations, supporting patching, and upgrading new software and configuration changes across multiple sites.
• Provide systems administration support in both Linux and Windows server environments in support of ensuring proper security compliance, patch level, and adherence to our configuration management standards.
• Collaborate with management, customers, and team members to evaluate and recommend procurements of hardware and software in support of stipulated system requirements.
• Enforce security and systems administration policy requirements such as vulnerability remediation, and system build standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional responsibilities at the at the SES.3 Level

• Manage multiple advanced parallel tasks and priorities of customers and stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met, while leveraging other team members’ skills.
• Apply in-depth technical expertise to solve complex technical problems and develop solutions using judgment in determining methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.
• Develop tools and procedures to facilitate complex automation efforts as well as cross-platform/environment monitoring solutions.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration with a concentration in Computer - Information Systems, or related field; or the equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Broad, multi-year experience in architecting, designing, and operationally managing enterprise F5 BigIP application load-balancing services across sites in support of stringent SLA agreements that require high availability.
• Comprehensive knowledge of and experience performing Linux and/or Windows O/S systems administration in a complex environment; including tasks such as O/S installation, layered product installation and configuratio