Network Security Production Engineer - Load Balancing

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg is seeking an SME for load balancing to own the full lifecycle of our global network infrastructure. You will build scalable, secure, and robust load balancing environments connecting data centers, edge sites, and private/public cloud connectivity for Bloomberg's core services.

You will design automation tooling, drive observability, SLOs, and incident response, and mentor junior engineers while embracing modern software development life cycles across a high-performance,

Qualifications

• 4+ years in an infrastructure role or equivalent.
• Extensive experience with load balancer environments.
• Experience building automation for scalable networks.
• Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
• BS/MS in CS, Engineering, or related field.

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 new technologies that ensure scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
• Develop tools and platforms that enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network.
• Enhance existing monitoring and observability frameworks, integrating 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 utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers and promote software engineering best practices throughout the team.
• Practice and promote the use of a modern software development lifecycle.

Skills

Load balancing

Automation

Python

SRE

Networking

Terraform

Ansible

Telemetry

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Airflow

Chef

Salt

Job description

As an SME for load balancing, you will be a critical member of the team responsible for the full lifecycle of our global network infrastructure that supports Bloomberg’s core products and services. This includes building and maintaining a load balancing environment that is scalable, secure, reliable and robust. Our network is vast, connecting several large-scale Data Centers and over a hundred edge sites. It connects Bloomberg to hundreds of thousands of our clients, over 1,500 global exchanges and trading venues over private connectivity, Internet and Public Cloud.

This is a unique opportunity to help build robust, highly scalable solutions that will power the future of how Bloomberg automates network infrastructure. You'll be trusted to design and work on tooling that builds on automation best practices and principles.

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 new technologies that ensure scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
• Develop tools and platforms that enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network.
• Enhance existing monitoring and observability frameworks, integrating 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 utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers and promote software engineering best practices throughout the team.
• Practice and promote the use of a modern software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering experience in an infrastructure role or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or System Reliability Engineer especially in the Load Balancer space.
• Experience with building, maintaining and continuously enhancing automation needed for scalability & efficiency in running the Network Infrastructure.
• Experience in infrastructure Automation or orchestration Frameworks e.g. Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, Salt.
• Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages preferably in Python.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study or equivalent work experience.

Preferred

• Experience managing and automating network devices at scale such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Whitebox, Broadcom, etc.
• Experience with virtualization and containerization.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and mentor others.
• Experience with software load balancers.