Application Delivery Load Balancing Engineer

E-INFOSOL LLC is seeking a highly motivated Application Delivery Load Balancing Engineer, to be regular Full-time and located in Huntsville, AL. Come join a team that collaborates across the entire organization to bring the right solution to our customers and drive innovation.

Job Description:

The Application Delivery Load Balancing Engineer will be part of a Network Engineering team for our federal client, providing support services for a network transport infrastructure consisting of unclassified, classified, and top-secret networks. The team is responsible for ensuring the availability of a reliable/robust network transport infrastructure that provides data protection for information delivered across strategic, operational, and tactical boundaries.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design, implement and maintain the network’s Load Balancer infrastructure. Inspect data packets and TCP, IP flow in network and application flow.
• Design and maintain telecommunication projects according to the telecommunications road map.
• Capable of locating and resolving capacity and performance issues and make the sure the uninterrupted operation of data telecommunications systems.
• Resolve any load balancing related issues and mitigate F5 related risk by providing solutions. 
• Keep track of the emerging products, services, and protocols in support of telecommunications equipment procurement.
• Configure and maintain F5 Load Balancers, load balancing best practices and WAN/LAN network management.
• Upgrade network operating systems software and hardware as per the management requirements and provide inputs into security technology plan while ensuring that the plans are integrated effectively with the other aspects of the technical infrastructure.
• Provide all the necessary support for large scale infrastructure migrations and baseline reviews.
• Technical support and expertise for operations and administration of all the F5 Load balancers used within the enterprise to provide reliable delivery of the FBI's most critical applications
• Provide mission and business application/tool development, integration, and maintenance
• Focus on designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining applications, tools, services, and other software to improve business and mission capabilities and improve application effectiveness. Services include, but are not limited to, implementing enterprise applications services to raise intelligence product quality and expand information sharing; adding, modifying, deleting functionality based on customer requirements; integrating new application architectures; upgrading and depreciating software and support tools as newer versions are released; improving application and tool quality and performance; and migrating legacy applications and tools to enterprise applications and tools to the maximum extent possible
• Provide support to integrate native cloud infrastructure with IC Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities (including contract cloud services), and the delivery and management of Government-specific IaaS to the users to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the user can deploy and run mission specific software, including operating systems and applications.
• End to End support for critical Alert Delivery Applications and Mobile application in production cloud environment
• Deployment of applications, upgrades, and changes to platform capacity
• Responsible for maximizing system uptime and availability, ensuring functional and performance SLAs
• Responsible for establishing end-to-end monitoring and alerting on Mobile and Delivery Applications to ensure SLAs and get proactive notifications of possible issues for all systems
• Development of an automation program for applications in Delivery and Mobile Creation of playbooks to run when responding to alerts or incidents
• Initiate and lead scripting and automation to streamline system updates and upgrades
• Work with cloud operations team to resolve trouble tickets, developing and running scripts, and troubleshooting in a hosted environment
• Planning for disaster recovery and capacity growth.
• Works closely with cloud engineering team on product deployment models, testing and escalations.
• Develop and contribute network engineering change input for new architecture to the operational environment on both unclassified and classified networks. Tasks include developing network designs and diagrams for the configuration of network equipment (such as routers and switches) and related software, primarily in a Cisco-based environment.
• Contribute to the development and dissemination of technical documents including requirements analyses, design documents, manuals, fielding documents, and preparing contract deliverables and reports, assisting in preparation of presentation graphics.
• Oversee the designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining of applications, tools, services, and other software to improve business and mission capabilities and improve application effectiveness.

Requirements:

• Subject matter expertise in Load Balancing platforms, possess a working knowledge of switches, routers, and firewall concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of network engineers
• Working knowledge of VMware; VM management and provisioning; Vblock technology, a plus
• History of understanding, supporting, and troubleshooting application-level systems, communications, and performance issues in cloud in a multi-tiered architecture
• Understanding of Microsoft security concepts and automate regular patches
• Understand of storage and its relationship to application performance and application management
• Experience with Application Monitoring (APM), metrics and reporting
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytics skills
• 2 years of relevant information technology/telecom network experience in classified and unclassified environments (DOD and/or Intelligence Community preferred)
• Other duties as assigned
• Network certifications such as: CCNA CCNP, CCISP, F5-CTS, F5- CSE.
• Must be a US Citizen with an Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Cisco and Juniper Network Transport Routers and Switches and Identity Service Engine (ISE) appliances, Network Firewalls, Type 1 encryptors, WAN optimization devices, Load Balancers, HP, TACLANES, Remedy ITSM technologies, and VMware
• Advanced network certifications such as: CCIE, JNCIE
• Knowledge of Agile management practices
• Experience supporting a large enterprise environment

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in technology related field or 2 year’s equivalent experience or subject matter expertise in network engineering

About E-INFOSOL:

E-INFOSOL is a Service Disabled and Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. We are a premiere IT Security, Cloud and Virtualization provider servicing both federal and state government, and private sector customers. Through strategic partnerships with top industry players such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix, we can provide an array of IT products and solutions, combining them with our expertise.

Why E-INFOSOL:

E-INFOSOL has 10 years of valuable knowledge and experience in the digital world expanding with new clientele and jobs rapidly. E-INFOSOL is constantly aware of, technical changes within IT and wants to ensure future candidates can make a difference with contributing their different skills and knowledge. We offer an array of architectural, engineering, and information technological jobs to a diverse group of candidates. Come join the E-INFOSOL family and be a part of the vast growing culture that contributes to the world.

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