F5 Load Balancer and AVi Engineer

Job Title : F5 Load Balancer and AVI Engineer

Location : San Antonio TX

F5 Load Balancer and AVI with DNS knowledge

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for overseeing the overall design and health of the Load Balancer environment mentoring junior engineers reviewing all F5/AVI/AVI implementation plans managing installation projects and resolving complex production issues. This role will perform design implementation and maintenance of load balancer application delivery controller infrastructure using F5/AVI BigIP LTM/GTM/ASM and AVI Load Balancers.

Responsibilities & Essential Duties:

• Provide and maintain configuration standards for the infrastructure.
• Administer and support F5 appliances throughout the organization.
• Administer and support VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi)
• Avi Networks control/Data planes hands on Experience.
• Selfservice Multi Cloud Application Services Platform software load balancers web application firewall (WAF) and container Ingress for applications across data centers.
• Recommend design implement and support application delivery infrastructure integration into business solutions while meeting the business goals and objectives. This includes supporting documentation and diagrams detailing the specific infrastructure.
• Install configure and manage traffic management systems supporting Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Domain Name System (DNS) load balancing and MultiFactor Authentication (MFA).
• Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
• Design and implementation experience with F5 Big IP LTM and GTM appliances and virtual appliances.
• Experience in multicloud load balancer (VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI))
• Knowledge of networking protocols: BGP RIPv2 OSPF EIGRP BFD DNS DHCP HTTP and NAT
• Excellent understanding of LTM configuration (VIPs Persistence SNAT SSL etc.).
• Experience writing and troubleshooting iRules and Managing AVI GSLB/ AVI Controllers.
• Ability to troubleshoot connection issues and services on F5/AVI appliances
• AVI/F5 OS upgrades backup and restores & Managing AVI/F5 appliances in HA configurations.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting tools such as: openssl QKView logs curl Wireshark Fiddler Postman.
• Knowledge of http protocol versions headers methods and status codes.
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot network traffic from layer 1 through 7 with utilities including SSH nslookup tcpdump ssldump cURL HTTP GET and Open SSL.
• Ability to effectively articulate the implications and impact that proposed architectural changes will have on the business (to technical and nontechnical audiences).
• Availability during evenings and weekends for P1 issues and scheduled change controls.
• Availability to provide 24x7 oncall support as scheduled & Knowledge of network monitoring solutions.
• Knowledge of application load balancing strategies and advanced techniques for application delivery

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years experience with F5/AVI Hardware/Software.
• F5/AVI Certified BigIP Administrator (F5/AVICA).
• 2 years experience in AVI Multi cloud Load Balancer vCenter NSX T Manager & ESXI
• Experience working in 24 x 7 centers with complex high transaction high availability environments.
• Experience creating implementation plans LTM GTM and ASM configurations TMOS code upgrades and deployment of new load balancing builds for F5 or AVI load balancing technologies.
• Experience with F5/AVI Traffic Management Operating system CLI commands and Route Domains.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation.
• Experience with F5/AVI ASM & APM modules.
• Experience with requesting and installing PKI server certificates.
• Experience with configuring PKI Certificate Authority (CA) trust bundles Certificate Revocation List (CRL) and Online Certificate Revocation List (OCSP).
• Experience with network design install configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with OSPF BGP MPLS RSVP QoS and STP.
• Experience with routers switches firewalls and loadbalancers.
• Experience with Internet based data transmission.

Preferred Certification:

• F5/AVI Certifications such as: F5CA F5CTS LTM F5CTS GTM or F5CTS APM.
• Experience with configuration deployment and administration of F5 TMOS versions 11.x or higher.
• Minimum 2 years Experience in AVI Multi cloud Load Balancer vCenter NSX T Manager & ESXI Environment.