Load Balancing Engineer

We are currently sourcing for a Load Balancing Engineer to work with an Enterprise Infrastructure Group in Westlake, TX.

The Team

Data Center Network Services (DCNS) is dedicated to overall global network engineering and support within Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations (EI&O). The Network Traffic and DDI Engineering (NTDE) team is a member of this group, and our team is accountable for Network Traffic Management and DNS, DHCP, and IPAM-related services for the enterprise.

Our F5 and AVI load balancing infrastructure and Infoblox and BIND DNS infrastructure are critical enterprise resources that enable revenue-producing services for the organization.

The Role

The Load Balancing Engineer will be responsible for the overall F5 and AVI Load Balancing design and providing secure connectivity solutions to the enterprise, allowing business teams and customers to be more driven, more productive, and more profitable in a global business environment.

These responsibilities include crafting new enterprise solutions, enabling new customer connectivity, securing the environment through tactical change management, as well as working across organizations to consult on and enable these services.

This position will require a well-adapted approach toward ITSM methodologies, ensuring the delivery of information technology services to meet the needs of the business community.

• Lead, support, and design F5 and load balancing solutions for critical applications running on-premises, at multiple CSPs, and in hybrid environments.
• Advise business partners on standard methodologies and options across various technology platforms.
• Solve sophisticated issues related to the Application Traffic Management environment (F5 and AVI).
• Provide 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 schedules as needed to support planned evening and weekend work.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• A minimum of 4–6 years of engineering experience installing, configuring, and supporting load balancing technologies, preferably F5 and/or Broadcom AVI.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting hybrid load balancing infrastructure (on-premises, 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, e.g., Ansible and 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 frameworks.
• Network certifications are 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.