Senior Network Engineer

    Position Overview:  The Senior Network Engineer (Load Balancing) will be responsible for the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-grade load balancing and traffic management solutions across on-prem and cloud environments. This role is critical to ensuring application availability, performance, and scalability. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with L4–L7 technologies, a performance-first mindset, and the ability to operate in complex, mission-critical environments.  The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with business acumen, ensuring that technology strategies align with organizational goals while delivering scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.  Key Responsibilities  Architecture & Design  Engineer, deploy, and manage load balancing solutions (L4–L7) to support high-availability applications and services   Design and implement traffic management strategies including SSL offload, content switching, GSLB, and application acceleration   Configure and support platforms such as F5 BIG-IP (LTM/GTM), Citrix ADC (NetScaler), A10, or cloud-native load balancers   Optimize application performance through tuning of persistence profiles, health monitors, iRules/policies, and traffic steering logic   Lead efforts in capacity planning, failover design, and disaster recovery for application delivery infrastructure   Troubleshoot complex network and application performance issues across multi-tier environments   Partner with application, DevOps, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of services   Implement and maintain secure traffic flows, including WAF integration, TLS best practices, and DDoS mitigation strategies   Automate load balancer provisioning and configuration using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or vendor APIs   Develop and maintain documentation, standards, and runbooks for traffic engineering and load balancing practices   Technical Leadership  Serve as an enterprise-wide authority on technology standards, patterns, and best practices.  Guide best practices adoption, modernization, and migration initiatives across business units.  Provide governance for solution design, ensuring compliance, security, and performance objectives are met.  Mentor engineers and junior architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence.  Implementation & Optimization  Lead proof-of-concepts (POCs), solution prototyping, and production deployments.  Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps) as needed.  Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.  Stakeholder Engagement ...