[Remote] Network Architect – F5 Distributed Cloud / MuleSoft / AWS
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Five Rivers IT Inc. is seeking an experienced Network Architect to lead the architecture, design, implementation, testing, and operationalization of a cloud-based global load balancing solution using F5 Distributed Cloud Services within AWS. This role focuses on designing a resilient and secure load balancing architecture for MuleSoft APIs that supports critical enterprise platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery sessions and stakeholder workshops with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and enterprise architecture teams
- Validate functional and non-functional requirements for multi-region API load balancing
- Assess current AWS network architecture, MuleSoft deployment topology, and security/compliance constraints
- Translate business requirements into scalable and supportable technical architecture
- Produce High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents
- Define a reference architecture for enterprise reuse across application teams
- Design global and local load balancing patterns using F5 Distributed Cloud Services
- Define per-API routing strategies for active/active and active/passive MuleSoft services
- Design for IP-level health awareness of ingress controller instances within each region
- Ensure the solution supports automated failover without manual reconfiguration of the load balancer
- Incorporate future extensibility so additional APIs and platforms can be onboarded without redesign
- Preserve and extend current security controls, including: WAF, TLS / mTLS, identity and policy enforcement
- Integrate with enterprise platforms and tooling, including: AWS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Azure AD, CyberArk, CloudWatch, Splunk, ServiceNow for CMDB, catalog, incidents, and alerting workflows
- Define and implement a Terraform-based IaC approach
- Build reusable, modular deployment components with clear separation for non-prod and prod
- Develop implementation plans, configuration standards, and deployment runbooks
- Deploy and configure the F5 Distributed Cloud solution in non-production and production environments
- Lead testing strategy and execution, including: functional testing, API routing validation, failover and resiliency testing, security validation, load and performance testing
- Support UAT and production cutover activities
- Develop operational runbooks, SOPs, and support model documentation
- Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for engineering and operations teams
- Support hypercare and transition to internal support teams
- Lead architecture review sessions with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity teams
- Prepare approval artifacts and address design feedback
- Drive delivery as an enterprise-grade reusable service, not a one-off implementation
- Provide strong technical leadership, documentation discipline, and stakeholder communication throughout the engagement
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in network architecture, application delivery, or cloud networking
- Deep hands-on experience with F5 Distributed Cloud Services
- Strong experience with AWS networking and multi-region architecture
- Experience designing global load balancing and local load balancing solutions
- Strong understanding of API traffic management and per-application/per-API routing models
- Experience supporting active/active and active/passive failover architectures
- Expertise in health monitoring, automated failover, and resilient application delivery patterns
- Strong experience with TLS, mTLS, WAF, and security policy continuity
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and reusable Infrastructure as Code design
- Experience integrating enterprise platforms with logging, monitoring, and ITSM tools
- Strong documentation skills, including architecture, design, test, and operational artifacts
- Ability to work across technical and business teams in a consulting-style delivery role
- Experience with MuleSoft, especially MuleSoft APIs and Private Spaces
- Experience with F5 Distributed Cloud in hybrid or multi-cloud enterprise environments
- Familiarity with CloudFront, API Gateway, Splunk, CloudWatch, and ServiceNow
- Experience with Azure AD and CyberArk integration patterns
- Prior experience supporting architecture review boards, cybersecurity review processes, and enterprise governance
- Experience delivering reusable shared services in large enterprise environments
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