Load Balancing Engineer
Location: Westlake, Texas
Country: United States
Category: Infrastructure & Helpdesk
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: April 13, 2026
Job ID: 646486
Job Description
Job Title: Load Balancing Engineer
Location: Westlake, TX or Merrimack, NH
Contract length: 6 months
Schedule: 40 hrs/week
Pay: $65/hr to $75/hr, DOE
Job Overview:
The Load Balancing Engineer will be responsible for the overall F5 & AVI Load Balancing design and providing secure connectivity solutions to the enterprise, allowing business teams and customers to be more driven, more productive, and more profitable in a global business environment. These responsibilities include crafting new enterprise solutions and enabling new customer connectivity and securing the environment through tactical change management, as well as working in a cross-organizational fashion to consult and enable these services. This position will require a well-adapted approach towards ITSM methodologies, ensuring the delivery of information technology services to meet the needs of the business community!
- Lead, support, and design F5 and load balancing solutions for critical applications running on-prem, at multiple CSPs, and hybrid environments
- Advise business partners on standard methodologies and options with the various technology platforms
- Solve sophisticated issues related to the Application Traffic Management environment (F5 and AVI)
- Shift-oriented operations support, in collaboration with network operations and network engineering teams
- Work closely with business partners and other Network Services teams to ensure 24x7 availability
- Ability to adjust work schedule as needed to support evening and weekend planned work
The Expertise and Skills You Bring:
- A minimum of 4-6 years’ engineering experience installing, configuring, and supporting load balancing technologies, preferably F5 and/or Broadcom AVI
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting hybrid load balancing infrastructure (on-prem, multi-CSP) and cloud-based load balancing services (ALBs, GSLBs)
- AWS and/or Azure cloud network engineering experience
- Deep knowledge of Traffic Management platforms
- Automation experience, e.g., Ansible, Python (a plus, not required)
- Network Engineering and Troubleshooting skills
- Application Traffic Analysis
- Routed/Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs – a plus
- Enterprise Security Policy knowledge and best practices
- Agile methodologies and frameworks
- Network certifications a plus but not required
- Works well independently and as part of a team; ability to lead a project
- Enjoys working directly with customers and solving their technical problems
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The Planet Group is a global professional services firm delivering strategic staffing and advisory solutions. We operate at the intersection of talent and transformation – connecting the right people with the right opportunities in the areas of technology, engineering, accounting & finance, digital marketing, and manufacturing.
As one of the largest staffing companies in the US, we operate with a global reach and a performance-first mindset. We partner with clients to move fast, stay agile, and drive measurable results – building high-impact teams that fuel transformation and growth.
