Load Balancing Engineer

Job Description:

· 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 American Airlines 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 and Experience:

· 10+ years IT experience required, minimum 4 years in Load Balancing technology and DNS.

Responsibilities:

· 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 Java.

· 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 flows.

· Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes, as needed, to resolve issues.

Qualifications

· Load Balancing Engineer with hands-on experience on F5 BIG-IP GTM and LTM devices as well as Citrix NetScaler.

Additional Information

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