Job details:
\nDuration: 12 months
\nStart Window: ASAP
\nWork Location: Miami, FL \/ Plantation, FL<\/p>\n
Role 3: IT Architect \u2013 F5 Load Balancing, DNS\/GTM & Application Delivery<\/p>\n
Position Summary
\n\u2022\tWe 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.
\n\u2022\tThe ideal candidate combines deep expertise in F5 technologies with hands-on experience in infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), API-driven operations, and modern application delivery architectures. This individual will establish the enterprise strategy for resilient, secure, highly available, and automated application delivery platforms while partnering with networking, cloud, security, application, and infrastructure engineering teams.
\nKey Responsibilities
\n\u2022\tDefine enterprise architecture standards for F5 BIG-IP and enterprise application delivery platforms.
\n\u2022\tDevelop multi-year technology roadmaps for load balancing, DNS, Global Traffic Management, SSL offloading, and application delivery modernization.
\n\u2022\tDesign highly available and scalable F5 architectures supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.
\n\u2022\tArchitect Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM\/DNS), Access Policy Manager (APM), Advanced WAF, SSL Orchestrator, and BIG-IP Next deployments.
\n\u2022\tDevelop reference architectures for global application delivery, disaster recovery, geographic load balancing, and hybrid cloud traffic management.
\n\u2022\tLead the modernization of application delivery platforms through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and API-driven provisioning.
\n\u2022\tDesign automated provisioning and lifecycle management for virtual servers, pools, monitors, certificates, policies, and DNS records.
\n\u2022\tEstablish engineering standards for infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform, Git, REST APIs, and CI\/CD pipelines.
\n\u2022\tDefine enterprise standards for SSL\/TLS certificate lifecycle management and application security integration.
\n\u2022\tCollaborate with networking, cloud, Linux, VMware, storage, identity, and cybersecurity teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions.
\n\u2022\tEvaluate emerging technologies including Kubernetes Ingress, Gateway API, cloud-native load balancing, and service mesh architectures.
\n\u2022\tLead platform modernization initiatives, technology refreshes, migrations, and architecture reviews.
\n\u2022\tDevelop enterprise documentation, standards, operational procedures, and reference designs.
\n\u2022\tMentor engineering teams and promote automation-first engineering practices.
\nRequired Qualifications
\n\u2022\tBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
\n\u2022\t10+ years of enterprise networking or infrastructure engineering experience.
\n\u2022\t5+ years in an architecture or technical leadership role.
\n\u2022\tExpert knowledge of F5 BIG-IP platform architecture.
\nDeep experience with:
\n\u2022\tLocal Traffic Manager (LTM)
\n\u2022\tGlobal Traffic Manager \/ BIG-IP DNS (GTM)
\n\u2022\tDNS architecture
\n\u2022\tApplication Delivery
\n\u2022\tSSL\/TLS
\n\u2022\tHigh Availability
\n\u2022\tAdvanced WAF
\n\u2022\tAccess Policy Manager (APM)
\n\u2022\tExperience designing globally distributed application delivery architectures.
\n\u2022\tDemonstrated experience implementing infrastructure automation for F5 platforms using APIs and Infrastructure as Code.
\n\u2022\tExperience automating F5 deployments using Terraform, Ansible, REST APIs, or declarative automation frameworks (AS3, DO, FAST, or similar).
\n\u2022\tExperience integrating F5 services with enterprise DNS, PKI, identity, cloud platforms, and CI\/CD pipelines.
\n\u2022\tStrong understanding of enterprise routing, switching, firewalls, BGP, OSPF, TCP\/IP, and DNS.
\nExperience with hybrid cloud networking across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","job_listing_type":[70],"job_listing_category":[141],"job_listing_location":[],"job_listing_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8248","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job_listing_type-full-time","job_listing_category-operations","is-featured","is-urgent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t