Description
Description
Introduction
Make a difference for national security by joining a team of dedicated IT professionals who will sustain, modernize and transform the enterprise IT capabilities of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Air Force and Combatant Commands Business Group of SAIC is seeking a F5 Engineer to support a transformational infrastructure program for DCSA.
SAIC is proud to be supporting DCSA in safeguarding our nation's information. DCSA is the designated oversight authority on the accreditation of classified facilities, information systems, and the insider threat program. This involves security oversight of more than 10,000 companies and approximately 13,000 facilities involved in classified work throughout the DoD and 31 Federal agencies.
Specifically, on the DCSA One IT program, SAIC will provide an enterprise IT solution that delivers highly secured and adaptable IT infrastructure, provides customer support, and cutting-edge technologies that support operations and advance the DCSA mission under a single IT environment (i.e., One IT).
Job Description
- Deploys, configures, and manages F5 BIG-IP appliances, including LTM, ASM, APM, and GTM modules.
- Develops and maintains iRules, SSL offloading, health monitors, and traffic policies- Optimize load balancing and application delivery performance.
- Supports management of network infrastructure operations, maintenance and administration for non-virtual and virtual systems in multiple enclaves and data centers, regional field offices, field offices and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Govcloud environments, as part of the overall strategic objective of the DCSA IT modernization and One IT initiatives to provide an improved flexible and evolving enterprise IT environment to support the DCSA mission IAW with DCSA and DoD policies and procedures and commonly utilized industry best practices.
- Researches, maintains, and applies expertise in emerging technologies, and industry developments, trends, best practices, and principles of network management.
- Conducts day-to-day network operations and administration activities.
- Ensures infrastructure is secure, available, and optimized. Improves scalability, surge, and automation capabilities.
- Performs trend analysis to ensure capacity and performance necessary for current and future mission demands and surge operations.
- Manages asset life cycle maintenance, coordinating schedules and complying with end-of-life/end-of-support timelines.
- Ensures sufficient bench stock of equipment to sustain and optimize network operations
- Supports accreditations for deployment of network/equipment.
- Performs regular weekly/monthly patching and security updates for network systems and devices, testing patches prior to deployment.
- Hardens network systems/devices according to DOD DISA STIG guidance.
- Conducts vulnerability assessment audits.
- Identifies and resolves network problems, using monitoring and bandwidth management solution products and by coordinating with third-party providers.
- Plans and executes backups and recovery operations.
- Facilitates change approvals through the change review board.
- Supports compilation, implementation, maintenance and archiving of documentation such as network diagrams, plans, designs, and architecture documentation for all enclaves (DEL 78), network operations/administration SOPs, a Network Operations Runbook, site-to-site VPN mapping, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instances mapping, and rack/elevation diagrams mapping, Access Control Lists (ACLs), network management trend analysis reports, accreditations, CM, and change control documentation.
- Evaluates network product usability, affordability, functionality, security, and performance to assess suitability for integration into classified environment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
It is required that the F5 Engineer have the following qualifications:
- BA/BS in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science.
- Two (2) or more years of relevant experience. An additional four years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
- IAT-II Certification in one of the following areas: CySA+, CND and/or Security+CE.
- Applicable Network Environment (NE) Certification: Big-IP LTM, Big-IP DNS, Big-IP ASM, and/or Big-IP APM.
Desired Qualifications/Skills
- TS/SCI.
- Self-starter who can take initiative and has the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Organized and able to follow DoD and agency processes designed to minimize risk to the environment.
- Must have strong communications skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills with clear communication.
- Strong work ethic with a results oriented mindset.
- Ability to collaborate with different roles and different levels across different teams to achieve common goals.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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