Senior F5 Administrator

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

IT Operations

The Senior F5 Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, and operational management of enterprise F5 BIG‑IP application delivery and traffic management platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments. This role serves as a Level‑3 escalation point and provides architectural leadership for load balancing, application availability, SSL/TLS services, and resiliency designs supporting business‑critical applications.

• Operate and support enterprise F5 BIG‑IP platforms (physical, virtual, and cloud), ensuring high availability and performance for business‑critical applications.
• Provide Level‑3 operational support for incidents, outages, and complex performance issues, serving as an escalation point for F5‑related services.
• Configure and maintain application traffic services, including VIPs, pools, health monitors, persistence, profiles, and iRules.
• Manage platform lifecycle activities, including software upgrades, hotfixes, and routine maintenance across environments.
• Implement and support SSL/TLS services, including certificate deployment, renewal, and synchronization in high‑availability configurations.
• Partner with application, network, and security teams to onboard new services and resolve operational issues in production environments.
• Support hybrid and cloud‑based deployments, including F5 services in AWS and/or Azure and integration with upstream security controls.
• Maintain operational documentation, including runbooks, standards, and configuration records to support audits and service continuity.

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience administering F5 BIG‑IP platforms.
• Strong expertise with:
  • BIG‑IP LTM
  • VIPs, pools, monitors, persistence, profiles
  • iRules (development and troubleshooting)
  • Experience with high‑availability (HA) designs and traffic failover
• Strong understanding of:
  • TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS
  • Load‑balancing algorithms and application behavior
  • Proven experience in enterprise production environments

• Experience with F5 in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure).
• Familiarity with application resiliency and blue/green deployment patterns.
• Experience integrating F5 with security platforms (WAF, firewalls, segmentation).
• Scripting or automation experience (Ansible, Python, Bash, REST APIs).
• F5 certifications (e.g., F5‑CA, F5‑CTS).

• This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our core locations (Cedar Rapids, IA / Denver, CO / Philadelphia, PA).
• Non‑traditional work hours as needed.
• Participate in scheduled on‑call rotations and provide after‑hours support as required to maintain the security and availability of critical network services.

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