Sr. Load Balancing Engineer (NetScaler & Akamai)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Network Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Authentication, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Certifications:

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - Microsoft, Citrix Certified Associate (CCA): Networking - Citrix, Security + - CompTIA

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Sr. Load Balancer Engineer supporting our HHS HRSA customer. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. 

As a hands-on Sr. Load Balancer Engineer, you will architect, engineer, test, and implement a global Cloud SASE Load Balancing solution using Akamai SASE load balancing services. 

*Candidates must be able to travel to customer location Maryland to obtain badging prior to starting.*

Responsibilities:

• You will help the customer migrate publicly accessible applications currently hosted on-premise using Citrix NetScalers to the new Cloud SASE Load Balancing solution with OKTA Single-Sign-On (SSO).
• Will work with cross-functional team of engineers and subject matter experts integrating firewalls, NAT, Azure Load Balancers, TIC 3.0 cloud infrastructure with the new Cloud SASE Load Balancing solution. 
• Help the customer achieve their goal of eliminating on-premise Citrix NetScalers. 
• Perform assessment and planning activities for migrating NetScaler VIPs (IPv4 and IPv6) to a SASE traffic management solution for public facing applications.
• Develop, document, and present a comprehensive migration strategy, including timelines, resources, and risk management plans.
• Perform limited Pilot of entire solution using a test application to demonstrate the changes required and build out the technical implementation plan.
• Develop requirements documents to address the specific migration plan and to-be architecture and get approval from the customer.
• Ensure routing of traffic between the Cloud SASE load balancing solution and the backend services take the proper path depending on TIC 2.0 or TIC 3.0 compliance.
• Perform migration activities for migrating NetScaler VIPs to the Cloud SASE load balancing solution for public facing applications.
• Provide Cloud SASE Load Balancer architecture diagram based on the architecture developed.
• Provide Cloud SASE Load Balancer network flow diagram illustrating end-to-end communication covering all use cases for the application based upon user type.
• Ensure Cloud SASE Load Balancer solution deployed meets NIST 800-53 requirements.
• Has a strong understanding of SSL, DNS, Firewalls, VPN, Content Delivery Network (CDN), routing, global LB traffic management, intrusion detection and IPv6.
• Work with security team to update GSS System Security Plan (NIST 800-53) for all controls that are customer configurable for Cloud SASE Load Balancer.
• Work with the team, customers and SMEs to develop required logging requirements (splunk, solarwinds, uptime, etc.) for the Cloud SASE Load Balancer solution.
• Help build a customer automated chargeback model and configure the Cloud SASE Load Balancer to collect metrics to use for chargebacks.
• Provide estimated per-customer costs based on current network traffic/metrics/consumption and report estimated post migration costs.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure all activities associated with the migration are properly communicated, timeframes are established, and changes are documented.
• Develop and adhere to standard operating procedures (SOP) for production use.
• Furnish any software, licenses or cloud subscriptions required for the project. 
• Integrate SASE Portal authentication with customer IDP, OKTA, providing MFA.
• Mentor and support a team of engineers to provision/configure Cloud SASE Load Balancer solution based upon customer requests in accordance to vendor best practices.
• Lead and provide technical support in Change Management processes that directly impact production environment. 
• Provide training to the government, and their successors, on details of the migration process, administration, maintenance, support and operational use of the solution.
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