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!

LOB Specific Summary:

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

• Ideal candidate is capable of working independently in a high paced environment.
   

Job Description:
This job is responsible for working on the least complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. This job facilitates deployment of technical solution by developing templates, playbooks, and automation used during implementation and consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing services. Job expectations include embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies, contributing to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions and providing feedback to the architecture teams
• Follows reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure the design is compliant
• Assists in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Assists Technical Analysts by ensuring system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Supports an inclusive and healthy working environment

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable experience
• Background 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 , TCL
• 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

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Architecture
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Business Acumen
• Innovative Thinking
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$100,800.00 - $135,300.00 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.