Position Overview:
The Senior Network Engineer (Load Balancing) will be responsible for the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-grade load balancing and traffic management solutions across on-prem and cloud environments. This role is critical to ensuring application availability, performance, and scalability. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with L4-L7 technologies, a performance-first mindset, and the ability to operate in complex, mission-critical environments.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with business acumen, ensuring that technology strategies align with organizational goals while delivering scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Engineer, deploy, and manage load balancing solutions (L4-L7) to support high-availability applications and services
- Design and implement traffic management strategies including SSL offload, content switching, GSLB, and application acceleration
- Configure and support platforms such as F5 BIG-IP (LTM/GTM), Citrix ADC (NetScaler), A10, or cloud-native load balancers
- Optimize application performance through tuning of persistence profiles, health monitors, iRules/policies, and traffic steering logic
- Lead efforts in capacity planning, failover design, and disaster recovery for application delivery infrastructure
- Troubleshoot complex network and application performance issues across multi-tier environments
- Partner with application, DevOps, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of services
- Implement and maintain secure traffic flows, including WAF integration, TLS best practices, and DDoS mitigation strategies
- Automate load balancer provisioning and configuration using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or vendor APIs
- Develop and maintain documentation, standards, and runbooks for traffic engineering and load balancing practices
Technical Leadership
- Serve as an enterprise-wide authority on technology standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Guide best practices adoption, modernization, and migration initiatives across business units.
- Provide governance for solution design, ensuring compliance, security, and performance objectives are met.
- Mentor engineers and junior architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Implementation & Optimization
- Lead proof-of-concepts (POCs), solution prototyping, and production deployments.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps) as needed.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with business leaders to translate requirements into actionable technology roadmaps.
- Produce architectural diagrams, technical documentation, and executive presentations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders on the value and impact of proposed solutions.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in network engineering with a strong focus on load balancing and application delivery
- Deep expertise in L4-L7 networking concepts, including HTTP/S, TCP optimization, persistence, and SSL/TLS
- Hands-on experience with platforms such as F5 BIG-IP (LTM, GTM/DNS), Citrix ADC, A10, or similar
- Strong understanding of DNS, GSLB, and global traffic distribution strategies
- Experience with cloud load balancing in AWS (ALB/NLB), Azure (Application Gateway/Front Door), or GCP
- Familiarity with web application security concepts including WAF, OWASP Top 10, and zero-trust principles
- Scripting/automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Solid understanding of routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, etc.)
- Strong troubleshooting skills with packet captures, logs, and performance metrics
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
- Must be locally located and comfortable working a 3 days in office hybrid model and 2 days remote
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication and executive presentation abilities.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Ability to balance long-term strategy with hands-on execution.
- Entrepreneurial and Collaborative mindset
- Leadership skills to influence cross-functional teams.
This position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future.