Senior F5 Load Balancer Engineer

Job Title: Senior F5 Load Balancer Engineer
Location: Chandler, AZ / Charlotte, NC / Plano, TX (Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Job Type: Contract, 18+ months
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Senior F5 Load Balancer Engineer to support complex, large-scale initiatives within a financial services environment. This role requires strong expertise in F5 Networks and VMware AVI, along with a solid background in enterprise networking, application infrastructure, and security. The engineer will design, implement, and support load-balancing solutions while partnering closely with application teams, network and security engineers, lines of business, and external vendors.
The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience delivering high- and low-level designs, implementing and troubleshooting production environments, and providing Level 3 support for critical services. Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, Perl, Java, JavaScript) are essential, as is the ability to understand application flows across underlying networks. The role also includes maintaining design and operational documentation, supporting capacity planning and performance monitoring, assisting with platform lifecycle activities, and collaborating on vendor engagements, certifications, and feature enhancements.
Key Requirements:
- Experience with network automation, scripting, and programming in enterprise environments
- Strong expertise in load balancing technologies, with hands-on experience supporting F5 Networks and VMware AVI environments
- Strong foundation in network engineering, architecture, and troubleshooting
- Solid understanding of network and application security, including application flows and underlying network dependencies
- Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Java, and JavaScript
- Experience contributing to the design of application infrastructure integration solutions and supporting technical standards and best practices
- Experience partnering with internal stakeholders and lines of business to gather and translate detailed technical requirements
- Experience developing high-level designs for load balancing infrastructure and related changes
- Hands-on experience creating low-level designs and configuration details for load balancing solutions
- Hands-on experience implementing solutions or providing clear handoff documentation and technical guidance to implementation teams
- Proven ability to provide Level 3 production support for complex operational issues and contribute to technical problem resolution
- Strong documentation skills, including end-to-end load balancing design and architecture artifacts
- Experience establishing capacity thresholds, workload management plans, and performance monitoring practices
- Experience collaborating with external vendors, including F5, to resolve chronic issues, defects, and enhancement requests
- Experience supporting feature enhancements, code certification efforts, and lifecycle management for load balancing platforms