Network Engineer Expert - Load Balancing
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While supporting the strategic migration of applications to the cloud, this evolution enhances AXA's ability to respond swiftly to market dynamics, ensuring high service quality, operational efficiency, and a robust security posture. Concurrently, AXA will maintain its existing on-premises legacy data center infrastructure, focusing on reducing technical debt and transforming its core IT footprint.
Several factors drive this transformation, including the need for high-speed, direct connectivity; optimization of data center space; rethinking data center urbanization and IP services; aligning with green IT objectives and power consumption reduction; enabling automation and scalability in infrastructure provisioning; and shifting security paradigms towards simplification and tighter control.
Within this context, our Data Center and Cloud Network engineers are instrumental in designing, engineering, delivering, and supporting products and services that significantly contribute to the success of the One Network program.
Our Application Delivery engineers play a key role in supporting AXA's "One Network" transformation by migrating VIPs from legacy Viprion hardware to modern virtual solutions on Cisco ACI Fabric. This migration enhances application availability, operational efficiency, and security across the organization. The F5 load balancing platform provides scalable, automated, and resilient application delivery to meet evolving business needs. This evolution simplifies management, accelerates incident response, and strengthens network capabilities. Ultimately, it ensures AXA's network infrastructure remains flexible, secure, and aligned with our digital transformation objectives. About the job Main missions Your responsibilities include:
- Design, deploy, and maintain F5 load balancing solutions, including VIPs, pools, and profiles
- Lead the decommissioning of Viprion chassis and migrate VIPs to the F5 Virtual Edition on Cisco ACI Fabric, ensuring minimal disruption
- Troubleshoot and support F5 infrastructure to ensure high application performance and availability
- Develop documentation for low-level designs, configurations, migration plans, and operational procedures
- Collaborate with teams to gather requirements, support projects, and ensure security and scalability
- Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience strategies
- Implement upgrade and patching roadmaps and disaster recovery plans for F5 environments
- Support team knowledge sharing and documentation updates
- Ensure reliable, secure operation of AXA's F5 infrastructure, including migrating VIPs from Viprion to virtual solutions
- Lead migration projects with minimal service impact, supporting digital transformation ambitions
- Enable rapid incident response and troubleshooting during migration and day-to-day operations
- Promote continuous improvement through documentation, knowledge sharing, and best practices
- Support scalability and resilience of application delivery infrastructure for future growth
Requirements
Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Proven experience deploying F5 solutions, hardware decommissioning, VIP creation, VIP migration, and automation in enterprise environments
- Hands-on with Viprion hardware, F5, and Cisco ACI Fabric integration
- Skilled in technical documentation, migration planning, and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of load balancing, application security, high availability, and network integration best practices
Skills
- 8-10 years of experience in F5 load balancing, VIP migration, and infrastructure automation
- Fluency in English
- Strong skills in BIG-IP configuration, VIP migration, and hardware decommissioning
- Strong skills in Terraform automation and Python scripting
- Familiarity with Cisco ACI Fabric and integration strategies
- Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
- Up to date with trends in load balancing, security, and automation solutions