Lead Network Engineer

About the job NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Calls will not be returned. We welcome individual candidates and Corp-to-Corp (CTC) resume submissions. 6-month contract – ONSITE Candidates must live within 50 miles of Evansville, IN or Baltimore, MD NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Calls will not be returned. We are seeking a Lead Network Engineer to help our direct client.This is an ONSITE position Must live within 50 miles of Evansville, IN or Baltimore, MD. The Lead Engineer will support a multi-site enterprise load balancing and DNS environment, including provisioning and configuration of two new F5 BIG-IP DNS standalone nodes, software upgrades on four BIG-IP DNS nodes and one BIG-IQ management platform, validation of Wide IP and DNS configurations, and integration with an Arista-based BGP Anycast architecture. Must be comfortable reviewing, troubleshooting, enhancing, and maintaining existing automation frameworks while providing recommendations for scalability, resiliency, and operational best practices. Environment Overview: Four F5 BIG-IP DNS standalone nodes across two data center locations; one BIG-IQ management platform; Arista-based BGP Anycast architecture; NGINX Plus deployed as a front end to Azure Load Balancers; approximately 20 production NGINX Plus clusters deployed as HA pairs supporting enterprise LTM services; infrastructure managed through Terraform, Ansible, YAML, Jinja2 templates, GitHub, and VS Code. Requirements: Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP DNS (GTM) Administration Provisioning and configuration of BIG-IP DNS/GTM Wide IP configuration BIG-IQ lifecycle management BGP routing Arista switching environments Extensive NGINX Plus experience, including NGINX as a Service (NGINXaaS) in Azure troubleshooting and optimization Azure Load Balancers High-availability NGINX deployments Custom server farm configuration Production application delivery environments Advanced experience with Terraform, Ansible, YAML, Jinja2 templates, GitHub-based workflows, Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies, and operational automation We look forward to receiving your resume in PDF format!