Sr. Web Platform Engineer – F5, NGINX
The Sr. Web Platform Engineer will work as part of the enterprise digital platform delivery group with a strong focus on migrating Load Balancer Configurations from F5 BIG-IP LTM to NGINX Plus. Responsibilities include solution design, configuration, and troubleshooting of load balancing, caching, and reverse proxy infrastructure on the NGINX / NGINX Plus platform. The role involves reviewing F5 iRules and translating them into NGINX configurations for deployment, as well as supporting the design and delivery of a highly scalable Content Distribution Platform using NGINX / NGINX+ caching, NGINX cache manager, reverse proxy, web functions, and multi-cloud middleware integration in conjunction with Adobe AEM dispatches and publishers (Apache, WebSphere, App Servers/gateways, F5, WAFs).
Responsibilities:
- Load Balancer redesign and migration from F5/iRules to NGINX Plus.
- Configure NGINX caching for dynamic load balancing, high performance tuning, and traffic optimization.
- Engineer NGINX load balancing and caching solutions optimized for content delivery using hierarchical tiered caching, cache integration, intelligent caching and routing, atomic self-leveling, and self-monitoring.
- Leverage NGINX, NGINX+, Azure Autoscaling, WebSphere, Apache, IIS, F5, Firewalls, WAF, and App gateways.
- Design platform automation and integration using Python, Groovy, Ansible, and scripting.
- Integrate middleware including application gateways, load balancers, SSL/TLS certificates and keys, firewalls, web and proxy servers using NGINX, NGINX+, Apache, WebSphere App Server, F5, WAF, and SSL Certificates.
- Engineer highly scalable secure Digital Content Delivery Caching framework using NGINX / NGINX cache manager, dynamic load balancing, autoscaling, and low latency delivery of Adobe Experience Manager Digital content and assets.
- Troubleshoot platform security with SSL certificates, firewalls, WAF, and proxies.
- Design, develop, test, and deliver resilient, secure, high-volume, high-performance platform solutions.
- Document work and mentor other technical resources on the use of the platform.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field.
- 8+ years in cloud platform, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Middleware integration, Performance, or DevOps.
- Experience with building production-ready NGINX and NGINX+ deployments.
- Strong Load Balancing experience with NGINX+ and F5 BIG-IP, LTM, GTM, iRules/iRulesets, ADC, CLI, iControl.
- Prior experience migrating Load Balancing from F5 to NGINX+ is strongly desired.
- Optimizing NGINX and fine-tuning for high performance supporting traffic and dynamic load for environments.
- Experience with using NGINX cache manager and caching architecture.
- Building highly scalable frameworks with NGINX and Azure or comparable cloud.
- Python and Ansible experience is a plus.
- Experience with K8 or AKS in Azure is a plus if architecture uses containers, Kubernetes, etc.
- Experience with auto scaling in Azure is a plus.
- Experience with building CI/CD pipeline automation into Azure is a plus.
- Experience with Adobe AEM is a plus.
Logistics: This is a 2-year+ contract role with ITmPowered. Work remote full time nationwide. Conversion at the end of the contract is a possibility for those that are eligible (living in CA, CO, WA, OR, GA, VA, MD, DC, HI). Must have COVID-19 Vaccination and booster. Must pass a 12-panel drug screen and 10-year BG Check. Must be a US Citizen or current green card holder. Excellent benefits, work-life balance, and an outstanding manager to work with.
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