{"id":3480815,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5","title":"Technical Architect | F5","company":{"id":5484,"name":"Tech Mahindra","domain":"techmahindra.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/tech-mahindra","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Career site","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":9,"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sydney, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":101000,"max_usd":217000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":2415},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"OSPF","optional":false},{"name":"Tcpdump","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"VLAN","optional":false},{"name":"Wireshark","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":true},{"name":"VMWare","optional":true},{"name":"VPN","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T20:02:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T09:28:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Job Description\n\nSkill Set :\nCyber Security\n\nTotal Experience :\n15.00 to 20.00 Years\n\nNo of Openings :\n1\n\nJob Post Date :\n14/10/2026\n\nJob Expiry Date :\n21/11/2026\n\nDomain :\nIT\n\nLocation :\nSYDNEY [Australia]\n\nJob Reference No :\n4112904\n\nJob Summary\nJOB POSTING DETAILS:\n\nJob title: \n Cyber Security Architect\n\nPrimary or Mandatory skills\n\nF5 BIG IP platforms: iSeries, rSeries, Velos, Viprion (hardware & virtualised).\nF5 Modules: LTM, DNS/GTM, ASM (AWAF), SSLO, CGNAT, AFM (DDoS), PEM, BIG IQ CM.\nEnterprise routing and switching: OSPF, BGP, STP, VLAN, LACP\n\nPacket capture and analysis: tcpdump, Wireshark.\nAutomation & Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AS3, iRules.\nAuthentication services: TACACS+, RADIUS.\n\nGood to have skills\nMonitoring & observability: SNMP, Syslog, Grafana, Prometheus\n\nVirtualisation: VMware and related virtualisation technologies.\n\nCloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure\n\nJob description \n\nCyber Security Architect with deep expertise in F5 technologies, enterprise network security, and application delivery. The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of hands on experience designing, implementing, and managing complex network and security infrastructures ‿ ideally within ISP, enterprise, or professional services environments across the APAC region.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead end to end design, implementation, and delivery of F5 based network and security solutions (LTM, DNS/GTM, ASM/AWAF, SSLO, CGNAT, AFM, PEM).\nArchitect and implement DNS solutions including caching resolvers, validating resolvers, and authoritative DNS servers with a focus on performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.\nDesign and enforce DNS and application security controls to protect against DDoS attacks, WAF threats, and DNS based exploits.\nProduce and maintain comprehensive technical documentation: HLD, Low Level Designs (LLD), security design documents, operational runbooks, and SOPs.\nCollaborate with network, infrastructure, platform, and security teams to deliver cohesive and resilient solutions.\nDrive high availability and failover architecture design, ensuring zero downtime resilience.\nProvide expert troubleshooting, optimization, and post implementation support across enterprise and ISP environments.\nDefine professional services scoping requirements and engage directly with customers to understand and address their technical needs.\nChampion automation practices using Terraform, AS3/iRules, and related tooling.\nImplement security hardening, RBAC, secure logging, and compliance controls across F5 platforms.\nExperience\n7+ years in network infrastructure, security architecture, or application delivery roles.\nProven track record delivering F5 professional services to enterprise and/or ISP clients.\nDemonstrated experience with large scale migrations (e.g., DNS migrations, CGNAT deployments, WAF rollouts).\nRegional project implementation experience across APAC is highly desirable.\nTechnical Expertise required for this role:\nF5 BIG IP platforms: iSeries, rSeries, Velos, Viprion (hardware & virtualised).\nF5 Modules: LTM, DNS/GTM, ASM (AWAF), SSLO, CGNAT, AFM (DDoS), PEM, BIG IQ CM.\nEnterprise routing and switching: OSPF, BGP, STP, VLAN, LACP.\nIPSec VPN design and implementation.\nPacket capture and analysis: tcpdump, Wireshark.\nMonitoring & observability: SNMP, Syslog, Grafana, Prometheus.\nVirtualisation: VMware and related virtualisation technologies.\nCloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure.\n\n Description/","description_format":"text","description_chars":3446,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Technology","Professional Services","Systems Integrators","Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-29T20:02:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":65,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/tech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/tech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T13:38:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25067,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5484},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5484"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/tech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftech-mahindra-technical-architect-f5"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3480815}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"techmahindra.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3480815},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}