Solutions Architect

Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced F5 Technical Design Authority (TDA) / Principal Solution Architect to provide technical leadership, architecture governance, and strategic direction for enterprise application delivery and security platforms.
The successful candidate will act as the design authority for F5 technologies across complex multi-datacentre, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business and security requirements. The role requires deep expertise across F5 BIG-IP, network security, application delivery, automation, cloud networking, and enterprise architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Own the technical architecture and governance of enterprise F5 platforms.
Produce and review High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), build guides, migration plans and operational standards.
Provide technical leadership throughout project lifecycles covering design, implementation, migration, upgrade and optimisation activities.
Lead technical workshops with customers, service providers, application teams and infrastructure stakeholders.
Act as technical escalation point for complex F5 and application delivery issues.
Define application delivery and security standards across multiple datacentres and cloud environments.
Design highly available and disaster recovery capable solutions.
Ensure solutions comply with security, risk, operational and regulatory requirements.
Mentor engineering and operational teams on F5 best practices.
Provide roadmap and strategic guidance for ADC, application security and network security technologies.
Essential F5 Experience
Candidates must demonstrate extensive hands-on experience across:
F5 BIG-IP Platform
Advanced troubleshooting and packet analysis
F5 migrations, upgrades and platform consolidation projects
Enterprise-scale F5 deployments supporting mission-critical applications.
F5 Development & Automation
Advanced iRules development
iControl REST API
F5 automation frameworks
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
CI/CD integration
Git-based configuration management
Network Architecture Skills
Designing solutions
Strong experience designing and troubleshooting:
TCP/IP
HTTP / HTTPS
SSL / TLS
DNS
DHCP
NTP
Routing and Switching
Enterprise WAN and Datacentre networking.
Security Experience
Candidates should possess strong experience with:
F5 Advanced WAF / ASM
F5 AFM
DDoS protection
OWASP Top 10 mitigation
Web application security
Identity and authentication technologies
SAML
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Zero Trust architectures
Firewall architecture and policy design
VPN technologies
Threat prevention
Security hardening and compliance.
Multi-Vendor Network Security Experience
Optional additional experience:
F5 Engine X
The successful candidate should have experience:
Acting as Design Authority or Technical Authority.
Approving architectural designs.
Producing architecture standards and reusable design patterns.
Reviewing solution designs from delivery teams.
Managing risk and technical governance.
Supporting large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
Working within highly regulated environments such as Banking, Financial Services, Telecoms or Critical Infrastructure

Work arrangement
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