Job Description :
eeking a Load Balancer for a 6+ month contract located in Fort Worth, TX.
o Load Balancing Engineer with hands-on experience on F5 BIG-IP GTM and LTM. This highly dynamic position will interact with application teams across the organization to engineer, document, and support load balancing solutions unique to the application requirements.
o The Load Balancing Engineer will be an expert in the F5 Load Balancing platforms, must have integration/configuration/administration experience, and possess a solid Network background including an understanding of switch, network routing, and firewall concepts.
o The Load Balancing Engineer must possess very strong troubleshooting skills as well as a strong TCP and HTTP understanding as it pertains to packet inspection and TCP flow in the Network and Application flows.
o The Load Balancing Engineer must have a very good understanding of DNS functionality and concepts as it relates to IPv4 and IPv6. Experience with and/or knowledge/understanding of Infoblox a plus.
o Experience working on the Citrix NetScaler as well as VDI environments is a plus.
Education/Experience
o Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field preferred, equivalent experience is acceptable
o 10+ years IT experience required, minimum 4 years in Load Balancing technology and DNS
Responsibility level
o Team player that exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor
o Coordinates multiple managed service providers using standardized engagements to complete work in various environments including Production environments
o Coordinates with Citrix and/or F5 vendors during issue resolution
o Interacts with multiple internal application teams to create customized load balancing solutions
Skills
o *Extensive knowledge of Load balancing technology including algorithms and health check options*
o *Extensive knowledge and experience with hosting SSL certificates on the F5 BIG-IP platform*
o *Extensive knowledge and experience regarding F5 BIG-IP LTM VIP configuration with health check*
o *Extensive knowledge and experience with F5 BIG-IP GTM Wide IP configuration*
o *Knowledge and experience with F5 BIG-IP iRule programming and troubleshooting experience*
o *Knowledge and experience with F5 BIG-IP TMOS Upgrades is required*
o Candidate MUST have extensive experience working in structured change management processes for highly available enterprise networks
o Candidate MUST have production environment experience consisting of Global load balancing, Local load balancing, SSL acceleration, HTTP compression/caching, and DNS
o Candidate MUST have strong Networking Experience - TCP/IP, Administration of networking hardware
o Candidate MUST have design and maintenance experience with complex Web hosting network architectures
o Candidate MUST have experience building and configuring major Internet host/network services including but not limited to: Web (http, SSL, etc, Mail (sendmail, etc, DNS, NFS, NIS/NIS+, Automounter, Databases (Oracle, SQL, etc and Java
o Experience directly managing routers, switches, load balancers and SSL accelerators in a high-availability infrastructure is required
o Expert knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery
o Expert understanding of TCP as it pertains to packet inspection and network/application flows
o Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes, as needed, to resolve issues
o Knowledge of Citrix NetScaler VIP configuration with health check
o Knowledge and experience with hosting SSL certificates on Citrix NetScaler platform
o Knowledge and experience with Citrix NetScaler responder policy configurations
o Knowledge and experience with Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway configurations
o Knowledge and experience with Citrix NetScaler content switching configurations
o Will be expected to provide documentation describing projects, deliverables and timelines
o Will be expected to report on project status
o Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills
o Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time