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# F5 Applications Engineer

- **Company:** Akima
- **Location:** Alexandria, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $136,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Domain Name System (DNS), Performance Tuning, Systems Integration, Transport Layer Security, Big Ip
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9081629/f5-applications-engineer

## About the Role

* Active Secret security clearance.
 * Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in IT or equivalent experience.
 * Minimum 6-8 years in an IT related field.
 * Active IAT Level II certification or equivalent.

Desired Qualifications:

 * Certified Technology Specialist certification.

## Description

* Responsible for the design, deployment, and optimization of application delivery solutions using F5 technologies across enterprise environments.
 * Ensure the availability, performance, and security of mission-critical applications by leveraging F5 BIG-IP modules such as LTM, ASM, APM, and DNS.
 * Collaborating with application owners, network engineers, and security teams to implement advanced traffic management policies, SSL offloading, and application-layer security controls.
 * Developing and maintaining iRules and iApps, integrating F5 solutions with identity providers and cloud platforms, and supporting application onboarding and troubleshooting.
 * Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and the automation of deployment and monitoring processes.
 * Maintaining a resilient, scalable, and secure application delivery infrastructure.


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