What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Network Engineer position at Keller Schroeder?
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6-month contract – ONSITE
Candidates must live within 50 miles of Evansville, IN or Baltimore, MD
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We are seeking a Lead Network Engineer to help our direct client.This is an ONSITE position Must live within 50 miles of Evansville, IN or Baltimore, MD. The Lead Engineer will support a multi-site enterprise load balancing and DNS environment, including provisioning and configuration of two new F5 BIG-IP DNS standalone nodes, software upgrades on four BIG-IP DNS nodes and one BIG-IQ management platform, validation of Wide IP and DNS configurations, and integration with an Arista-based BGP Anycast architecture. Must be comfortable reviewing, troubleshooting, enhancing, and maintaining existing automation frameworks while providing recommendations for scalability, resiliency, and operational best practices.
Environment Overview: Four F5 BIG-IP DNS standalone nodes across two data center locations; one BIG-IQ management platform; Arista-based BGP Anycast architecture; NGINX Plus deployed as a front end to Azure Load Balancers; approximately 20 production NGINX Plus clusters deployed as HA pairs supporting enterprise LTM services; infrastructure managed through Terraform, Ansible, YAML, Jinja2 templates, GitHub, and VS Code.
Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP DNS (GTM) Administration Provisioning and configuration of BIG-IP DNS/GTM Wide IP configuration
- BIG-IQ lifecycle management
- BGP routing
- Arista switching environments
- Extensive NGINX Plus experience, including NGINX as a Service (NGINXaaS) in Azure troubleshooting and optimization
- Azure Load Balancers
- High-availability NGINX deployments
- Custom server farm configuration
- Production application delivery environments
- Advanced experience with Terraform, Ansible, YAML, Jinja2 templates, GitHub-based workflows, Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies, and operational automation
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