Senior Network Engineer

Senior F5 Load Balancer Consultant (SME)

Location: Remote (Occasional onsite travel for project kickoffs, planning sessions, and critical migrations)

Duration: 6–9 Month Contract

Overview

Our healthcare client is seeking a Senior F5 Load Balancer Consultant to lead the modernization of its enterprise load balancing environment. This consultant will serve as the technical subject matter expert (SME), responsible for assessing the current environment, leading complex F5 migrations, documenting operational procedures, and transferring knowledge to the internal engineering team.

This engagement is focused on delivering a stable, scalable, and supportable F5 environment while establishing long-term operational best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead migrations from legacy load balancers to F5 BIG-IP with minimal downtime.
• Assess the current load balancing environment and recommend modernization strategies.
• Design, configure, and implement enterprise F5 solutions following industry best practices.
• Perform advanced packet capture analysis and troubleshooting using Wireshark.
• Configure and support SSL Offloading, SSL Bridging, and application delivery services.
• Develop technical documentation, architecture documentation, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and operational runbooks.
• Partner with network architects and infrastructure engineers throughout implementation.
• Provide recommendations for lifecycle management, platform upgrades, and future-state architecture.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and technical mentoring to internal engineering teams.
• Ensure a smooth transition of operational ownership upon project completion.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting F5 BIG-IP environments.
• Proven experience leading legacy load balancer to F5 migration projects.
• Strong expertise with F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and enterprise Application Delivery Controllers (ADC).
• Advanced Wireshark experience performing packet-level analysis and troubleshooting.
• Expert-level knowledge of SSL Offloading and SSL Bridging.
• Experience developing technical documentation, architecture documentation, SOPs, and operational procedures.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across enterprise networking and application delivery environments.
• Ability to work independently as the primary technical SME.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing enterprise network infrastructure.
• Experience within healthcare or other highly regulated industries.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred Technical Skills

• F5 BIG-IP LTM
• F5 BIG-IP APM
• Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
• Load Balancing
• Wireshark
• SSL Offloading
• SSL Bridging
• TCP/IP
• HTTP/HTTPS
• DNS
• Network Architecture
• High Availability (HA)
• Layer 4–7 Networking
• Traffic Analysis
• Enterprise Networking

About Us:

At Brooksource, relationships are the foundation of everything we do. Since 2000, we've built lasting partnerships with clients, consultants, and internal teams to deliver an exceptional experience across every engagement. As a trusted IT and Engineering services provider, Brooksource supports Fortune 500 organizations through Experience-Driven Staffing, Professional Services, and Elevate, our proprietary Workforce Transformation program. Whether you're hiring for software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, or enterprise IT, our customized staffing solutions are designed to align with your company's unique goals, culture, and technology stack. We offer flexible hiring models, including contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement to meet your evolving business needs.

We are a certified partner of leading platforms, including Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, enabling us to deliver scalable, end-to-end technology solutions. With a growing national footprint, Brooksource is redefining expectations in IT consulting, engineering services, and technology workforce solutions.

EEO Statement:

Brooksource is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

Benefits & Perks

Benefits & Perks: Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee's needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.

Pay Disclaimer:

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.