- Company Name
- Pyramid Technology Solutions
- Job Title
- Senior Engineer/ Senior Load Balancer Engineer
- Job Description
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Job Title: Senior Load Balancer Engineer
Role Summary:
Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise‑level F5 load‑balancing solutions (VIPRION LTM/GTM and virtual) across on‑premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud). Deliver high‑availability, performance‑optimized, secure load balancing for mission‑critical applications.
Expectations:
- Ensure minimal downtime during upgrades and migrations.
- Monitor health and performance of all load‑balancing components.
- Diagnose and resolve incidents, providing root‑cause analysis and improvement recommendations.
- Keep security patches and firmware current.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to validate application behavior post‑deployment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan, install, configure, test, and manage F5 LTM/GTM (local and global) and virtual F5 environments.
- Create and maintain virtual servers, pools, nodes, monitors, iRules, SSL profiles, HTTP compression/caching, and DNS configurations.
- Monitor system health, perform capacity planning, and tune performance parameters.
- Execute hardware and software upgrades with predetermined maintenance windows.
- Analyze incident reports, troubleshoot issues, and implement corrective actions.
- Evaluate new load‑balancing technologies and integration opportunities.
- Document architecture designs, configuration baselines, and operational procedures.
- Coordinate with application owners and network teams to validate load‑balancing requirements and test changes.
Required Skills:
- Deep knowledge of F5 VIPRION LTM/GTM, virtual F5, migration techniques, and cloud‑based load balancers.
- Proficiency in VMware ARVI and VMware across AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud.
- Strong grasp of global/local load balancing, SSL acceleration, HTTP compression/caching, DNS management.
- Networking fundamentals and Cisco configuration/troubleshooting expertise.
- Cloud service troubleshooting (AWS EC2/ELB, Azure Load Balancer, GCP Compute Engine).
- Monitoring and automation scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
- Incident analysis and root‑cause reporting.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Certifications: F5 Certified Systems Engineer (F5‑CSE) or F5 Certified Administrator (F5‑CMA), Cisco CCNA/CCNP, VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or equivalent.
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) are a plus.