F5 Tuning Specialist

World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology integrator and IT solutions provider.World Wide Technology, established in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri, collaborates with OEMs like Cisco and Dell EMC to offer infrastructure security and custom app development services to Fortune 500 companies in various sectors. With over 10,000 employees globally, we generate $17 billion in annual revenue and operate in regions including the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Costa Rica, APAC, and Middle East. We're proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Glassdoor for over 13 years. World Wide Technology Holding Co, LLC (WWT) has an opportunity for a F5 Tuning Specialist . Below is the JD for the role. Please help me with the information needed to process your application, and I will contact you to discuss the role. This is a contract Role & Inside IR35 F5 Tuning Specialist Contract Duration : 6 months Location: Sheffield, Birmingham or Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week) Objective: Augment the internal Efficacy and Security Engineering teams with hands-on consultants focused on WAF tuning and efficacy testing across Akamai, F5 , and cloud-native WAFs (covering at least two out of three major CSPs: AWS, Azure, GCP). This is a professional services engagement - not platform engineering-with a focus on tuning rules, analysing data, reducing false positives, and validating control efficacy in production-like conditions. Scope Includes: Hands-on tuning experience with Akamai and F5 (minimum 1 of each). Custom rule creation , OWASP rule tuning (especially for F5), false positive reduction. Log analysis and data-driven tuning based on real traffic. Support for cloud-native WAF tuning (all three Cloud providers) -not deployment or infra setup. Efficacy testing in partnership with the internal team - recommend adjustments based on findings. Well-rounded profiles with real-world exposure -not theoretical or solely vendor-trained. Key Expectations: Prior experience in professional services engagements or consulting. Familiarity with at least one cloud provider in real operational environments. Strong soft skills -happy to learn above and beyond the role - initiative-taking, collaborative, and able to communicate tuning rationale. All candidates will need to go through a background check. Must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Only successful candidates will be contacted. EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled TPBN1_UKTJ

Created: 2025-08-17