Summary:

The senior F5 load balancer engineer’s primary responsibility is to support the network engineering team with daily operations and lead engineering designs and architectural improvements within the LTM/GTM infrastructure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Translate functional business requirements into a technical solution that conforms to internal design standards.
• Excellent understanding of LTM/GTM configuration (VIPs, Persistence, SNAT, SSL, custom health monitors, etc.).
• Experience in writing and troubleshooting complex iRules.
• Intermediate knowledge of networking and systems administration; and the ability to troubleshoot problems.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting tools, such as: tcpdump, logs, curl, and Wireshark.
• Knowledge of http protocol versions, headers, methods, and status codes.
• Availability during evenings and weekends for P1 issues and scheduled change controls.

The engineering team collaborates with the web development and other technical teams to engineer services utilized by the F5 infrastructure as well as other traditional network environments.

Other areas of responsibilities for this position are:

• Domain purchases and maintenance.
• Certificate Management for F5 and non-F5 deployments.
• Assist with F5 Cloud API platform.
• DNS expertise such as using ZoneRunner, configuring and renewing DNSSEC, updating DNS options such as DKIM records, and configuring WideIP.
• Maintaining and configuring BigIQ.
• Developing/maintaining custom alerting beneficial to identifying application performance issues (C# or Python programming).
• Documenting F5 application diagrams and troubleshooting guides.
• On-call for critical maintenance and deployments.

Qualifications:

• 8 years of Network engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an area of technology and/or F5 BigIP certification.
• Professional networking certifications, such as CCNP, are desirable.
• Experience in architecting, implementing, and supporting critical enterprise level LAN and WAN technologies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and change focus as needed.
• Ability to maintain precise documentation and network diagrams.

Standards of Performance:

• Professional representation of Open Technology Solutions.
• Job knowledge/timely, accurate and efficient performance.
• Adherence to OTS’s policies and procedures.
• Promotes and ensures the highest level of quality member Service is provided to all members.
• Confidentiality of all records.
• Timeliness of meeting regulatory guidelines.
• Compliance of regulatory requirements.
• Cost effectiveness and productivity of departmental operations.
• Success in meeting individual, departmental, and corporate goals.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required periodically to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, smell and talk or hear.
• The employee is regularly required to lift up to twenty-five pounds. Job has the following vision requirements: close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• General office environment with low noise levels.
• Must be able to rotate on a standard daily schedule (time frames from 6am to 6pm MT)