The central unit within the federal police is replacing and upgrading its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), a 24/7 platform used by thousands of officers for biometric storage, search and analysis. This role sits on the ABIS infrastructure team and focuses on BIG-IP F5 (LTM, APM, ASM/AWAF) and Palo Alto firewall administration, monitoring and incident response for a high-availability environment.
The mission
The ABIS project maintains a fault-tolerant infrastructure that must be available around the clock for operational police use. The technical landscape includes F5 BIG-IP (LTM, APM, ASM/AWAF), Palo Alto firewalls, routers and stateful packet-inspection devices, and centralized logging and monitoring with Splunk and ELK. Ensuring policy compliance, secure partner connections and timely remediation of vulnerabilities is central to project success.
Day to day you will configure and harden F5 and Palo Alto components, implement monitoring and log correlation, and handle second-line troubleshooting. You will follow change requests for the ABIS infrastructure, resolve project tickets, and participate in incident response for network intrusions, organised attacks or malware detection together with a multidisciplinary mix of internal and external specialists.
Your responsibilities
- Configure and maintain F5 BIG-IP modules (LTM, APM, ASM/AWAF) and Palo Alto firewalls to ensure secure, highly available ABIS connectivity
- Enforce and verify security policies across perimeter and application-layer devices, producing auditable configuration baselines
- Investigate and resolve infrastructure tickets, performing root cause analysis and proposing persistent fixes
- Lead containment and remediation steps during security incidents, coordinating with colleagues and external partners for forensic and recovery actions
- Implement and tune monitoring, alerting and log-correlation in Splunk and ELK to reduce detection and response times
- Produce clear technical documentation, runbooks and change reports for stakeholders and auditors
Your profile
Essential skills
- Hands-on administration of BIG-IP F5 (LTM, APM, ASM/AWAF) and practical experience with Palo Alto firewalls
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, SNMP and network routing fundamentals
- Experience with monitoring and log-correlation tools such as Splunk and ELK, plus vulnerability scanning with Nessus
- Ability to troubleshoot stateful packet-inspection firewalls, routers and complex traffic flows
- Calm and structured incident response skills, with clear written reporting and runbook creation
- Good verbal communication, autonomy, adaptability and proven teamwork in multidisciplinary environments
Languages
- French, B2
- Dutch, B1
- English (technical), B2