Load Balancing Engineer

We are currently sourcing for a Load Balancing Engineer to work in Westlake, TX or Merrimack, NH

The Role
The Load Balancing Engineer will be responsible for the overall F5 & AVI load balancing design and for providing secure connectivity solutions across the enterprise, enabling business teams and customers to be more efficient, productive, and successful in a global business environment. Responsibilities include designing new enterprise solutions, enabling new customer connectivity, securing the environment through tactical change management, and working in a cross-functional manner to consult on and support these services. This position requires a strong understanding of ITSM methodologies to ensure the effective delivery of information technology services that meet business needs.

• Lead, support, and design F5 and load balancing solutions for critical applications running on-prem, at multiple CSPs, and hybrid environments.
• Advise business partners on standard methodologies and options with the various technology platforms.
• Solve sophisticated issues related to the Application Traffic Management environment (F5 and AVI)
• Shift -oriented operations support, in collaboration with network operations and network engineering teams.
• Work closely with business partners and other Network Services teams to ensure 24x7 availability.
• Ability to adjust work schedule as needed to support evening and weekend planned work.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• A minimum of 4-6 years' engineering experience installing, configuring, and supporting load balancing technologies, preferably F5 and/or Broadcom AVI.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting hybrid load balancing infrastructure (on-prem, multi-CSP) and cloud-based load balancing services (ALBs, GSLBs)
• AWS and/or Azure cloud network engineering experience
• Deep knowledge of Traffic Management platforms
• Automation experience, eg. Ansible, Python (a plus, not required)
• Network Engineering and Troubleshooting skills
• Application Traffic Analysis
• Routed/Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs - a plus
• Enterprise Security Policy knowledge and best practices
• Agile methodologies and framework
• Network certifications a plus but not required.
• Works well independently and as part of a team; ability to lead a project.
• Enjoys working directly with customers and solving their technical problems.