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Kaiser Permanente · 5 months ago

Sr. Network Engineer Infrastructure - Network Admin, F5 Load Balancing

Pleasanton, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to support their F5 Load Balancing infrastructure within the Network Services organization. The role involves critical thinking and problem-solving in a large-scale network environment, ensuring high availability and operational excellence across multiple data centers.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities

Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback

As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions

Supports the review of team deliverables

Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs

Collaborates with team members to develop project support plans, schedules, and assignments

Translates business and functional requirements into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for designated infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications

Serves as a liaison with business partners, Solutions, and enterprise architects to define and understand target strategies

Collaborates with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation

Develops and modifies solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems

Provides consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities

Reviews and makes changes to technical specifications and documentation

Collaborates with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provides solutions, as appropriate

Evaluates existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels

Evaluates new service options, identifies issues and impacts, and provides recommendations on feasibility and ROI

Collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable designs

Verifies system designs adhere to company architecture standards

Drives physical architecture design for new initiatives

Leads the implementation of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems to ensure successful deployment and operation by developing and documenting detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services

Qualification

F5 Load BalancingTCP/IP networkingNetwork infrastructure designLinux/Unix Operating systemsUnix shell scriptingPythonAnalytical problem solvingCustomer focusCommunication skillsTeamwork

Required

Minimum four (4) years experience in network infrastructure planning, design, and implementation

Minimum one (1) year in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement

Preferred

5 years related Network Engineering and/or Operations experience (or similar IT experience)

Strong experience with deploying, operating DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management (DDI) protocols and Infrastructures

Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking including switching, routing, WLAN, common protocols, and services

5 years minimum experience supporting F5 Load Balancing environment

Detailed knowledge of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Detailed knowledge of F5 BIG-IP DNS formerly known as Global Traffic Manager (GTM)

Strong understanding of Linux/Unix Operating systems

Strong understanding with Unix shell scripting and Python

Strong understanding of F5 Load Balancing concepts and algorithms

Strong understanding of High Availability Models and Appliances Architectures

Experience using network monitoring systems

Good written and oral communication skills. Ability to effectively document network outages and activities performed through outage restoration

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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