F5 Load Balancer Architect With Azure Experience

BC
On-site
Posted Oct 10, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Apply on LinkedIn (LinkedIn sign-in required)

Job summary

Assess the existing on-premises F5 BIG-IP environment, map dependencies and traffic patterns, and design a migration to cloud-based load balancing and application delivery. Coordinate Azure network integration, identify and mitigate migration risks to support zero-downtime cutover, and present the architecture and migration phases to stakeholders.

Job details

F5 Load Balancer Architect With Azure Experience Contract Role Onsite, Vancouver B.C Job Description: The ideal candidate will possess deep architecture and design expertise in application delivery controllers (ADCs), with a proven track record of mapping complex legacy setups to cloud topologies. Strong familiarity with Azure network integrations is highly preferred. Core Responsibilities Architectural Assessment: Evaluate the current on-premises F5 BIG-IP infrastructure (LTM, GTM/BIG-IP DNS, APM, ASM/WAF) to map out dependencies and traffic patterns. Migration Strategy & Design: Author a comprehensive architecture design document outlining the workflow to transition traffic and load balancing capabilities from on-premises hardware to the cloud. Azure Integration Planning: Collaborate with cloud infrastructure teams to design the landing zones, virtual appliances (e.g., F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition in Azure), Azure Load Balancers, Application Gateways, and UDRs (User Defined Routes). Risk Mitigation: Identify potential roadblocks in traffic routing, SSL/TLS offloading, and security policies, providing mitigation strategies to ensure zero-downtime during the migration cutover. Stakeholder Alignment: Present architectural designs and migration phases clearly to senior IT leadership and engineering teams. Required Skills & Qualifications Expertise in F5 Technology: Deep, specialized experience architecting, designing, and deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions (LTM, GTM/DNS, iRules). Infrastructure Migration: Proven track record of leading network infrastructure migrations from legacy on-premises datacenters to cloud environments. Enterprise Architecture: Strong background in high-availability network design, disaster recovery planning, data center routing, and security protocols. Communication: Exceptional documentation skills for writing technical architecture frameworks, runbooks, and implementation designs. Availability: Must be able to work 100% onsite in Vancouver, B.C. for the full duration of the 1-month contract. Preferred Qualifications Azure Exposure: Direct experience working with Microsoft Azure networking components (Azure Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Load Balancer, F5 VE in Azure marketplace) is highly preferred and will be considered a significant advantage. Certifications: F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS) or F5 Certified Solution Expert (F5-CSE), and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires deep experience architecting, designing, and deploying F5 BIG-IP solutions, along with a proven record leading on-premises-to-cloud network infrastructure migrations. Candidates should have strong enterprise networking, high availability, disaster recovery, security, and technical documentation expertise; Azure networking experience and relevant F5 or Azure certifications are preferred.