Principal Consultant (F5 Load Balancing

Principal Consultant (F5 Load Balancing)

About the role

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As a Computacenter Principal Consultant, you will assist in providing transformative technology solutions for the world's most visionary companies.

This takes imagination, relentless client service, and tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers.

Our top-tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem.

Along with designing and implementing single and multi-vendor technology solutions, you will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients’ needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals.

This role focuses on wireless networking.

What you'll do

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Analyze existing Citrix ADC configurations and develop a comprehensive migration plan to F5 BIG-IP.
• Design and implement F5 BIG-IP architecture to replace Citrix ADC functionality.
• Configure F5 BIG-IP load balancing, SSL offloading, and application security features.
• Migrate existing applications and services with minimal disruption.
• Optimize F5 configurations for performance and security.
• Develop automation scripts to streamline migration and ongoing management.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to team members.
• Collaborate with application teams to ensure a smooth transition.
• Act as a technical lead in technology solutions.
• Mentor other Engineers.
• Lead a team of resources on larger projects.
• Review the deliverables of other Engineers, as appropriate.
• Act as a point of escalation.
• Present technology topics at internal education sessions and industry user group meetings and / or conferences.
• Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies, best practices, and tools that support the growth of the business.
• Ability to assess Customer environment and make design and solution recommendations.
• Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams.
• Provide design, deployment, and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions.
• Handle issues escalated by Consultants and Lead Consultants.
• Ability to troubleshoot multi-vendor issues.
• Lead a Project team.
• Be current with vendor offerings and technology.
• Be available to meet the customer’s IT needs.
• Achievement of utilization targets.
• Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.

What you have

• 15+ years of professional experience in large enterprise environments.
• Professional networking certifications are a plus.
• F5 Certified LTM Specialist Certification Preferred.
• F5 Certified DNS Specialist Certification Preferred.
• Deployment experience with one or more : F5, Citrix, Cisco.
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Subject matter expert within your focused technology stack.
• Ability to design complex multi-technology solutions.
• Ability to design complex technical solutions and provide input into bid, project, and technical documents.
• Broad knowledge of the business benefits that technical solutions can provide.
• Ability to lead and organize a large virtual technical team, with good negotiation skills and people management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to present in a group setting.
• Strong working experience with designing / configuring / troubleshooting F5 Application Delivery Systems, specifically LTM, DNS, BIG-IQ.
• Experience with iRules.
• Experience with Citrix ADC Load Balancers preferred.
• Experience with Linux and shell scripting (bash / zsh / sh).
• Experience with network troubleshooting using tools like tcpdump or Wireshark.
• Deep knowledge of load balancers, web servers, caching, and web-enabled applications and their associated protocols, e.

g., HTTP, TLS, SSL, TCP / IP.

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business.

We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA;

Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com / us

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