Load Balancing Engineer

Your opportunity

Responsible for performing Load Balancing engineering as well as business management functions in an overall Engineering role.  This engineer will lead engineering projects, provide day-to-day support for the overall Load Balancing environment as well as contribute to automation development and project/business management (related to the technical projects specific to the organization).  The engineer will also have key and influential interactions with application teams and automation teams to develop technical processes for all load balancing related processes. 

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of new architectural standards with architect leads

• Collaborate with peers and other team engineers/business partners to deliver on Load Balancing network service requests

• Responsible to drive Load Balancing projects and Jira requests to timely completion

• Maintain compliance with audit responsibilities, related to Load Balancing configurations and architectural standards

• Develop and/or review technical scripts for network implementations, via the change management process

• Support some night and weekend change implementation windows

• Manage/Balance technical completeness while achieving business needs (accuracy and timeliness)

• Working with F5 and other vendors to achieve the technical goals of the firm while holding the vendors accountable to the needs of individual and/or firm goals/deliverables.

What you have

Requirements:

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders seamlessly and successfully team cross-organizationally on infrastructure deliverables

• Team player with strong customer service qualities and a positive attitude

• 3+ years of Schwab domain technology experience as a current or recent contractor or employee

• Detail-oriented, with ability to maintain a high level of accuracy

• Ability to balance multiple projects, analyze problems, and prioritize tasks

• Initiates and supports change to improve internal processes and operations

• Able to self-manage work and complete assigned tasks within deadlines

• 7-10years of Advanced knowledge of F5 Hardware

• Resilient cabling / appropriate use of ASIC / FPGA layouts to ensure appropriate fault domains

• Certification processes of new devices/models

• Sizing of hardware to ensure appropriate capacity/resiliency in clustered and standalone deployments

• 7- 10 years of Advanced knowledge of F5 Load Balancers

• Focus on LTM and GTM modules, but also ability to function in AFM and APM

• Clustering / High availability design and implementation for both chassis and non-chassis based deployments

• Advanced routing module, BGP, OSPF, and how these things function in standalone and clustered deployments

• Ability to function 100% on the command line (TMSH, BASH, IMISH)

• Understanding of iCall, triggering methods, scripting language, etc.

• Understanding of iRules, triggering events, scripting language, etc.

• Automation abilities

• Knowledge of one or more of AS3, DO, and TS addons to F5 TMOS

• Ability to understand and create scripts in one or more of:

• Python

• Bash

• Powershell

• Ability to call iControl or iControlREST APIs on the devices and process the output into useful reporting

• High level understanding of Ansible or Terraform

• Operational abilities

• Ability to “see the forest through the trees” on troubleshooting calls

• Understand problem statements as defined by teams with no networking knowledge

• Create and follow maintenance plans/keep the lights on activities

• Participate in an on-call schedule, as well as other pre-planned night/weekend activities

• Drive problem resolution (post-incident) to ensure appropriate action items and preventative measures are designed/implemented