Senior IT Architect - F5 & Global App Delivery Leader

Kforce Inc; North Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking an experienced Senior IT Architect in Juno Beach, FL to lead enterprise application delivery and load balancing platforms, focusing on F5 BIG-IP, GTM/LTM, DNS, SSL offloading, and WAF. This role requires hands-on IaC and API-driven provisioning, with automation driving modern delivery architectures.

You will collaborate with networking, cloud, security, application, and infrastructure teams to establish resilient, secure, and highly available platforms across on-prem and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of enterprise networking or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years in an architecture or technical leadership role.
• Expert knowledge of F5 BIG-IP platform architecture.
• Experience automating F5 deployments using APIs and IaC tools.
• Experience with hybrid cloud networking across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture standards for F5 BIG-IP and enterprise application delivery platforms.
• Develop multi-year technology roadmaps for load balancing, DNS, Global Traffic Management, SSL offloading, and application delivery modernization.
• Design highly available and scalable F5 architectures supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Architect Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS), Access Policy Manager (APM), Advanced WAF, SSL Orchestrator, and BIG-IP Next deployments.
• Develop reference architectures for global application delivery, disaster recovery, geographic load balancing, and hybrid cloud traffic management.
• Lead the modernization of application delivery platforms through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and API-driven provisioning.
• Design automated provisioning and lifecycle management for virtual servers, pools, monitors, certificates, policies, and DNS records.

Skills

F5 BIG-IP architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Hybrid cloud networking

Networking protocols

APIs and automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

REST APIs

Job description

Kforce is seeking an experienced Senior IT Architect in Juno Beach, FL to lead enterprise application delivery and load balancing platforms, focusing on F5 BIG-IP, GTM/LTM, DNS, SSL offloading, and WAF. This role requires hands-on IaC and API-driven provisioning, with automation driving modern delivery architectures.

You will collaborate with networking, cloud, security, application, and infrastructure teams to establish resilient, secure, and highly available platforms across on-prem and