Network Security Production Engineer - Load Balancing
About The Position
As a load balancing subject matter expert, the Network Security Production Engineer is a key member of the team responsible for the full lifecycle of Bloomberg’s global network infrastructure supporting its core products and services. The role involves building and maintaining a scalable, secure, reliable, and robust load balancing environment across a network connecting large-scale data centers and more than 100 edge sites, as well as clients, exchanges, and trading venues through private connectivity, the Internet, and public cloud. The engineer designs and develops tools that apply automation best practices to network infrastructure. The role focuses on automating network operations, improving observability and reliability, implementing new technologies, defining service-level objectives, and promoting modern software engineering practices. The position also includes mentoring junior engineers.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of engineering experience in an infrastructure role or equivalent work experience.
- Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, Network Production Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer, especially in the load balancer space.
- Experience building, maintaining, and continually enhancing automation for scalable and efficient network infrastructure operations.
- Experience with infrastructure automation or orchestration frameworks such as Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, or Salt.
- Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably Python.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing and automating network devices at scale, such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, whitebox, or Broadcom devices.
- Experience with virtualization and containerization.
- Eagerness to learn new technologies and mentor others.
- Experience with software load balancers.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software tools for a large-scale, multi-vendor network, emphasizing automation, telemetry, and model-driven infrastructure as code.
- Automate the full network lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, observability, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
- Collaborate with architecture and design teams and the CTO office to implement technologies that support scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
- Develop tools and platforms that improve production network observability, reliability, and performance.
- Enhance monitoring and observability frameworks with intelligent alerting and self-remediation capabilities to reduce manual intervention and improve incident response.
- Define and measure service-level objectives (SLOs) to track infrastructure performance and reliability.
- Write software using orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote software engineering best practices.
- Practice and promote a modern software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Merit increases
- Incentive compensation for exempt roles
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- 401(k) with company match
- Life insurance
- Wellness programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
