Senior Network Engineer

### 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. ### Key Responsibilities - **Architecture & Design**: Engineer, deploy, and manage load balancing solutions (L4–L7) to support high-availability applications and services. - **Traffic Management**: Design and implement strategies including SSL offload, content switching, GSLB, and application acceleration. - **Platform Configuration**: Configure and support platforms such as F5 BIG-IP (LTM/GTM), Citrix ADC (NetScaler), A10, or cloud-native load balancers. - **Performance Optimization**: Optimize application performance through tuning of persistence profiles, health monitors, iRules/policies, and traffic steering logic. - **Capacity Planning**: Lead efforts in capacity planning, failover design, and disaster recovery for application delivery infrastructure. - **Troubleshooting**: Troubleshoot complex network and application performance issues across multi-tier environments. - **Collaboration**: Partner with application, DevOps, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of services. - **Automation**: Automate load balancer provisioning and configuration using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or vendor APIs. - **Documentation**: 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. - 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. ### Stakeholder Engagement - Partner with business leaders to translate requirements into actionable technology roadmaps. - Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders on the value and impact of proposed solutions. ### Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in network engineering.