| Duties & Responsibilites : | -Load Balancing Engineer with hands-on experience on F5 BIG-IP GTM and LTM devices as well as Citrix NetScaler.
This highly dynamic position will interact with application teams across to create load balancing solutions unique to their requirements.
- The Load Balancing Engineer will be an expert in the F5 and Citrix NetScaler 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.
- The Load Balancing Engineer must possess very strong troubleshooting skills as well as a strong TCP understanding as it pertains to packet inspection and TCP flow in the Network and Application flows.
- The Load Balancing Engineer must have a very good understanding of DNS functionality and concepts as it relates to IPv4 and IPv6.
Education/Experience
-Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field preferred, equivalent experience is acceptable
-10+ years IT experience required, minimum 4 years in Load Balancing technology and DNSResponsibility level
-Team player that exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisoro Coordinates multiple managed service providers using standardized engagements to complete work in Production environments
-Interacts with multiple internal application teams to create customized load balancing solutions Skills
-Extensive knowledge of Load balancing technology including algorithms and health check options
-Knowledge and experience regarding F5 BIG-IP LTM VIP configuration with health check
-Knowledge and experience with F5 BIG-IP GTM Wide IP configuration
-F5 BIG-IP iRule programming and troubleshooting experience
-Extensive knowledge of Citrix NetScaler VIP configuration with health check
-Knowledge and experience with Citrix NetScaler Global Load Balancing (gslb) configuration
-Candidate MUST have extensive experience working in structured change management processes for highly available enterprise networks
-Candidate MUST have production environment experience consisting of Global load balancing, Local load balancing, SSL acceleration, HTTP compression/caching, and DNS
- Candidate MUST have strong Networking Experience
- TCP/IP, Administration of networking hardware
- Candidate MUST have design and maintenance experience with complex Web hosting network architectures
- 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 Javao Experience directly managing routers, switches, load balancers and SSL accelerators in a high-availability infrastructure is required
- Expert knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery
- Expert understanding of TCP as it pertains to packet inspection and network/application flowso Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes, as needed, to resolve issues
- Will be expected to provide documentation describing projects, deliverables and timelines
- Will be expected to report on project statuso Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skillso Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time
- Expert mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback
REQUIRED SKILLS:
-CITRIX,TCP/IP,Cisco,DNS
-Candidate MUST have strong load balancing experience with F5 GTM, F5 LTM, and NetScaler
INTERVIEW PROCESS:
In Person |
