F5 Load Balancer Architect With Azure Experience

F5 Load Balancer Architect With Azure Experience

Contract Role

Onsite, Vancouver B.C

Job Description:

The ideal candidate will possess deep architecture and design expertise in application delivery controllers (ADCs), with a proven track record of mapping complex legacy setups to cloud topologies. Strong familiarity with Azure network integrations is highly preferred.

Core Responsibilities

• Architectural Assessment: Evaluate the current on-premises F5 BIG-IP infrastructure (LTM, GTM/BIG-IP DNS, APM, ASM/WAF) to map out dependencies and traffic patterns.
• Migration Strategy & Design: Author a comprehensive architecture design document outlining the workflow to transition traffic and load balancing capabilities from on-premises hardware to the cloud.
• Azure Integration Planning: Collaborate with cloud infrastructure teams to design the landing zones, virtual appliances (e.g., F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition in Azure), Azure Load Balancers, Application Gateways, and UDRs (User Defined Routes).
• Risk Mitigation: Identify potential roadblocks in traffic routing, SSL/TLS offloading, and security policies, providing mitigation strategies to ensure zero-downtime during the migration cutover.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Present architectural designs and migration phases clearly to senior IT leadership and engineering teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Expertise in F5 Technology: Deep, specialized experience architecting, designing, and deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions (LTM, GTM/DNS, iRules).
• Infrastructure Migration: Proven track record of leading network infrastructure migrations from legacy on-premises datacenters to cloud environments.
• Enterprise Architecture: Strong background in high-availability network design, disaster recovery planning, data center routing, and security protocols.
• Communication: Exceptional documentation skills for writing technical architecture frameworks, runbooks, and implementation designs.
• Availability: Must be able to work 100% onsite in Vancouver, B.C. for the full duration of the 1-month contract.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Exposure: Direct experience working with Microsoft Azure networking components (Azure Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Load Balancer, F5 VE in Azure marketplace) is highly preferred and will be considered a significant advantage.
• Certifications: F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS) or F5 Certified Solution Expert (F5-CSE), and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications.