F5 Load Balance Network Engineer implementing and maintaining load balancer technologies for the DOD. Collaborating on enterprise IT contract across multiple networks and locations.
About the role
- Senior Network Engineer working with enterprise network systems for retail and e-commerce. Evolving network from manual processes to infrastructure-as-code through collaboration and automation.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, implement, and support enterprise network systems across LAN, WAN, WLAN, and data center environments
- Manage enterprise firewall, load balancer, and VPN infrastructure across internet-facing, DMZ, and internal segments
- Architect and maintain scalable, resilient network solutions aligned with business growth and retail operations needs
- Develop and maintain network automation workflows using Ansible — including playbooks for configuration management, provisioning, compliance enforcement, and change management
- Write Python scripts and tooling to support network operations, event-driven automation, API integrations, and custom reporting
- Champion a 'automate first' culture within the network team, identifying repetitive manual processes and replacing them with repeatable, version-controlled automation
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform engineering teams to integrate network workflows into CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain deep expertise in network security design — stateful firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC, and authentication systems
- Ensure consistent security posture across multi-vendor environments, wireless networks, and remote/branch locations
- Support audit, compliance, and change control processes with automation and documentation
- Partner with IT leadership to shape the long-term network roadmap, with a focus on SD-WAN, automation maturity, and cloud connectivity
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior and mid-level network staff
- Translate complex technical concepts for both business and engineering stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise network infrastructure in large, multi-site environments
- Expert-level knowledge of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, VLANs, and related protocols
- Hands-on experience with SD-WAN platforms (e.g., Cisco Viptela, Meraki, VeloCloud/VMware, Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN)
- Proficiency with Ansible for network automation; solid Python programming skills with experience using libraries such as Netmiko, NAPALM, Nornir, or pyATS
- Firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Cisco ASA/FTD), VPN (IPsec, SSL), and zero-trust network concepts
- Experience with Cisco Nexus, Juniper EX, Juniper MX, Juniper MIST, Cisco WLC, Arista VeloCloud, Palo Alto Firewalls, A10 Load Balancers, Infoblox, Clearpass, PRTG, Pure SANs, Brocade Fiber Channel.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- PTO
- generous employee discounts
- retirement savings and much more!
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