Network Security Production Engineer - Load Balancing

at Bloomberg

📍 New York City, United States

USD 130,000-225,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

As a subject matter expert for load balancing, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of global network infrastructure supporting Bloomberg’s core products and services. This includes building and maintaining a scalable, secure, reliable, and robust load-balancing environment across large-scale data centers and more than one hundred edge sites.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain software tools to manage a large-scale, multi-vendor network, with an emphasis on 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 improve scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
Develop tools and platforms that enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network.
Enhance monitoring and observability frameworks, including 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 the use of a modern software development lifecycle.

Requirements

4+ years of engineering experience in an infrastructure role or equivalent work experience.
Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or Site Reliability Engineer, particularly in the load-balancing space.
Experience building, maintaining, and continuously enhancing automation for scalability and efficiency in 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.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
Experience managing and automating network devices at scale, such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Whitebox, or Broadcom devices, is desirable.
Experience with virtualization and containerization is desirable.
Experience with software load balancers is desirable.
Eagerness to learn new technologies and mentor others.

Benefits

Benefits may include merit increases, incentive compensation for exempt roles, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability benefits, a 401(k) match, life insurance, and wellness programs.