Cloud APLB Engineer

at  Richemont

SKILLS

• Proven experience in Administering F5 BIG-IP Systems and load-balancing technologies in a large-scale infrastructure.
• Strong DevOps culture and comfortable with IaC Tools
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Git
• GitLab
• Very good knowledge of:

MAIN PURPOSE

As a Cloud APLB Engineer, you are part of the Application Publishing and load-balancing Engineering Team within the Cloud Infrastructure Department. You will be the specialist for the F5 Platform, Cloud Native Load Balancing, WAF Security, and CDN/DNS Integration. You will be responsible for engineering the Application Delivery Platform on which thousands of Virtual and Physical Servers are deployed within our Public Multi-Cloud Environment (e.g., AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Google Cloud).
Working within a product-based framework, you will have to develop, engineer, and maintain the different APLB products, including F5 and Native Cloud Load Balancers, WAF, ICAP, CDN, and Public DNS for critical highly available production environments integrating concepts such as infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and end-to-end automation. You will be asked to challenge the status quo and improve the current solution. The Cloud APLB Engineer will also be the main point of contact to receive new requirements of our clients, and you will integrate them into the product roadmaps with the product owner. Finally, you will continuously evolve the standards & procedures for the operational team to deploy and operate APLB Products in an efficient and quality-oriented way.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• In charge of multiple F5 BIG-IP Instances around the world, you will be asked to evaluate and recommend major evolutions of the architecture
• In charge of Cloud Native Load Balancer product within Public Cloud Platforms (AWS, Alibaba, GCP)
• In charge of CDN and Public DNS design and automation
• Responsible for designing, assessing, and implementing new solutions, including Load Balancing, WAF Security, CDN, and DNS
• Analyse, deal, and resolve technical incidents at Level 3 in case of escalation.
• High level of automation through IAC is required (terraform, Git, Ansible, Vault …)
• Work in multinational teams/projects in collaboration with Engineers, Architects, and Operational Teams.
• Work in close partnership with the Cloud Platform and the other Engineering Teams to evaluate, test, and deploy other infrastructures that are in line with our global IT strategy in the Public Cloud