Senior Load Balancing Engineer

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:

This position is for a Load balancing engineer who will be working in the Consumer banking space. Main responsibilities include working with application developers, network and security engineers as well as project managers on deploying F5 load balancer solutions that vary in complexity to meet the application needs

Required Qualifications:

• •5+ years of IT experience, specifically with network scripting and programming
• •Considered a SME for load balancing specifically F5 Networks and VMWare AVI
• •Strong network background including engineering, design and troubleshooting skills
• •Strong network and application security background: understand application flows and underlying networks
• •Programming and scripting knowledge including Python, Perl, Java, Javascript
• •Lead and design application infrastructure integration framework, outline best practices and standards
• •Participates in project calls and works with internal bank groups as well as LOB to gather detailed technical requirements
• •Responsible for High Level design as it pertains to load balancing infrastructure and changes
• •Responsible for Low Level design (configuration details, hands on experience is required) for load balancing
• •Able to perform implementations or provide necessary details to handover to implementation team as required
• •Provides Level 3 support and direction for production related issues
• •Responsible for documentation of end to end load balancing design
• •Establishes capacity/threshold management plan and details for Work Load Management
• •Works with external vendors (F5) for chronic issues, bugs, feature enhancements
• •Participates and provide guidance for new feature enhancements, code and certification Helps with lifecycle management of load balancing product set

Desired Qualifications:

• •Experience implementing and optimizing automation frameworks for F5 or AVI, including integration with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• •Demonstrated ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex application traffic flows, including SSL/TLS offloading, TCP optimization, and advanced application delivery policies
• •Strong ability to translate business or application requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure load‑balancing architectures, with an emphasis on high availability and disaster recovery design
• •Strong communication and networking skills

Skills:

• •Adaptability
• •Analytical Thinking
• •Influence
• •Production Support
• •Risk Management
• •Automation
• •Collaboration
• •Innovative Thinking
• •Result Orientation
• •Solution Design
• •Business Acumen
• •DevOps Practices
• •Project Management
• •Solution Delivery Process
• •Stakeholder Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$70,000.00 - $134,100.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.