Network Performance Engineer

DescriptionThe Load Balancing Engineer will be responsible for the overall F5 & AVI Load Balancing design and providing secure connectivity solutions to the company 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 in a cross-organizational fashion to consult and enable these services. This position will require a well-adapted approach towards 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-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.Experience: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 experienceDeep knowledge of Traffic Management platformsAutomation experience, eg. Ansible, Python (a plus, not required)Network Engineering and Troubleshooting skillsApplication Traffic AnalysisRouted/Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs – a plusEnterprise Security Policy knowledge and best practicesAgile methodologies and frameworkNetwork 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.