Senior IT Architect - F5 Load Balancing

Job#: 3051898

Job Description:
Senior IT Architect - F5 Load Balancing

Location: 700 UNIVERSE BLVD., Florida (Onsite)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Architect to lead the architecture, engineering standards, and strategic direction for the enterprise Application Delivery and Load Balancing platforms. This role is responsible for defining enterprise standards for F5 BIG-IP technologies, Global Traffic Management (GTM), Local Traffic Management (LTM), DNS services, SSL/TLS, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and application delivery across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments. This individual will establish the enterprise strategy for resilient, secure, and automated application delivery platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture standards for F5 BIG-IP and enterprise application delivery platforms.
• Develop multi-year technology roadmaps for load balancing, DNS, Global Traffic Management, and application delivery modernization.
• Design highly available and scalable F5 architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Architect Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS), Access Policy Manager (APM), Advanced WAF, SSL Orchestrator, and BIG-IP Next deployments.
• Lead the modernization of application delivery platforms through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and API-driven provisioning.
• Establish engineering standards for infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, Git, REST APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with networking, cloud, Linux, VMware, storage, and cybersecurity teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including Kubernetes Ingress, cloud-native load balancing, and service mesh architectures.
• Develop enterprise documentation, standards, operational procedures, and reference designs.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote automation-first engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience: 10+ years of enterprise networking or infrastructure engineering experience, with 5+ years in an architecture or technical leadership role.

Technical Skills:

• Expert knowledge of F5 BIG-IP platform architecture.
• Deep experience with Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager / BIG-IP DNS (GTM), DNS architecture, Application Delivery, SSL/TLS, High Availability, Advanced WAF, and Access Policy Manager (APM).
• Experience designing globally distributed application delivery architectures.
• Experience implementing infrastructure automation for F5 platforms using APIs, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Ansible, or REST APIs.
• Experience integrating F5 services with enterprise DNS, PKI, identity, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of enterprise routing, switching, firewalls, BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, and DNS.
• Experience with hybrid cloud networking across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

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