Senior Cloud Load Balancer :: Onsite :: W2 Position

Job Role: Cloud Load Balancer Engineer

Location: Downey, CA- Onsite

Duration: 12 Months Contract




Position Description   

A Senior Load Balancer Engineer is responsible for leading and/or working on the most complex IT infrastructure, modification, installation, testing, implementation, and support of new or existing system hardware and software products. This classification needs to plan, install, configure, test, implement and manage core system hardware and software products in support of an organization’s IT architecture and business needs. The Senior Load Balancer Engineer, in maintenance and support of F5 Load Balancers, is responsible for the installation, configuration, and maintenance of all F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Global Traffic Manager (GTM) load balancer functions to include creating virtual servers, pools/pool members, nodes, monitors, and iRules. The Senior Load Balancer Engineer will be responsible for all load balance support for cloud service providers (Amazon Web Services - AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform – Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud), planning and upgrading the systems on a regular basis, checking the health of all the systems, and making necessary changes as required. Analyzing issues reported by internal/external teams and making necessary recommendations; planning and designing systems architecture; working with customers to test applications after changes. Upgrading hardware in a timely manner with a minimum downtime window; evaluating new applications software technologies; and/or ensuring the security products are patched on a regular basis.   

 

Skills Required           

The Senior Load Balancer Engineer will possess in depth knowledge of F5 VIPRION LTM, GTM systems; virtual F5 VIPRION LTM/GTMs, migration from physical to virtual F5, or other cloud-based load-balancers; VMware ARVI located at the various cloud providers, such as AWS, MS Azure, Google cloud, IBM cloud; global load balancing; local load balancing; SSL acceleration; HTTP compression/caching; and DNS.

 

Additional Skills Required     

- The Cloud Load Balancer Engineer will possess in depth knowledge of administrating and architecting Infoblox solutions.        

 

Experience Required 

This classification requires a minimum of three (3) years of experience configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting F5 load balancing VIPRION based solutions for enterprise environments. At least three (3) years as a network administrator using, configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting Cisco network equipment for enterprise environments. At least two (2) years of experience using, configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting cloud-based load-balancers, servers, and network systems for enterprise environments.          

 

Additional Experience Required        

At least five (5) years of experience deploying and managing Infoblox solutions.

 

Education Required   

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.