Network Engineer - F5 / Fortinet / Ingress-Egress

Title: Network Engineer - F5 / Fortinet / Ingress-Egress Location: Remote (US) Duration: 16 weeks Key Responsibilities

• Analyze F5 iRules inventory and classify by migration complexity
• Design ALB/NLB configuration to replace F5 functions
• Design Inspection VPC pattern for L7/L4 traffic inspection
• Migrate iRules to ALB listener rules or equivalent AWS-native configurations
• Assess and implement interim F5 solution if December deadline is at risk
• Design AWS Network Firewall rule groups to replace Fortinet
• Design reporting parity for Fortinet replacement
• Design north-south and east-west traffic flow architecture
• Validate functional parity for F5 and Fortinet replacements

Required Skills

• F5 BIG-IP - deep understanding of iRules, virtual servers, pools
• ALB/NLB - advanced listener rules, target groups, WAF integration
• AWS Network Firewall - stateful/stateless rule groups
• L7 traffic inspection - URL routing, header manipulation, URI rewriting
• Inspection VPC patterns - Gateway Load Balancer or centralized inspection
• TLS/mTLS - certificate management, termination points
• Terraform - ALB/NLB/Network Firewall module development
• F5 to cloud-native migration experience strongly preferred