SRE II, Load Balancing
About the role
), Responsibilities (Responsibilities
), Qualifications (Qualifications
), Skills (Skills
), Pay (Pay
). We need to use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose use
. For About the role: it's prose; we can put in
. For Responsibilities: list items. For Qualifications: list items. For Skills: list items (maybe we can break into sublists? But we can just list each line as
- ). For Pay: prose with the range.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. So we need to cut out the introductory fluff before "Job Summary"? The instruction says do not repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. The posting starts with marketing fluff: "Are you looking to Optimize your life? Start your exciting path to a rewarding career today! We are Optimum..." That's likely boilerplate marketing; but it's part of the posting. However it's not a section heading; we can include it as part of About the role? The About the role section should capture the substantive description of the role. The marketing fluff may be considered boilerplate? It's not legal/EEO but it's promotional. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The marketing fluff is not explicitly listed, but could be considered boilerplate? It's not navigation/legal/EEO. It's more like a tagline. Might be okay to keep as part of About the role? However the instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." The marketing fluff is not substantive about the role; it's generic. Might be considered boilerplate. Safer to drop it and start from "Job Summary". The "Job Summary" heading is not a heading we should use (we use About the role). So we can put the content after "Job Summary" into About the role. Thus About the role content: "We are looking for a Network SRE with a 'reliability mindset' to join our infrastructure team. It is a highly specialized, hands-on engineering position focused entirely on application delivery and load balancing infrastructure. You will effectively function as our resident Load Balancing Engineer, maintaining and expanding our high-performance traffic management architecture using primarily F5 equipment. As a Senior Network SRE, you will also help us transition from manual configurations to automated, resilient, and observable network operations, particularly regarding VIP provisioning and certificate lifecycles." We need to ensure we keep all details. Responsibilities: The bullet points under Responsibilities heading: - Core Engineering: Configure, deploy, and troubleshoot load balancing infrastructure, focusing heavily on F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS). - Incident Response: Act as the first line of defense for complex application delivery issues. Investigate VIP health, traffic routing anomalies, SSL/TLS handshake failures, and latency issues using a blameless root-cause analysis approach. - Reliability & Automation: Move away from manual changes. Help build and run Python scripts, Ansible playbooks, or API-driven workflows to automate VIP creation, pool management, and network auditing. - Observability: Improve our "eyes on the network" by tuning monitoring tools and F5 telemetry to detect traffic issues before they impact end users. - Maintenance: Plan and execute load balancer maintenance windows (code upgrades, hardware replacements, certificate renewals) with a focus on zero downtime. We need to keep each as
- . Possibly we could keep the bold headings inside the li? The original had bold headings like **Core Engineering:** etc. We can keep them as plain text inside li.
Qualifications: bullet points:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years' of relevant experience
- F5 Fluency: Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ infrastructure. You must be comfortable navigating both the GUI and tmsh command-line interface, managing Virtual Servers, Pools, Profiles, and iRules.
- Application Delivery Fundamentals: Deep understanding of the TCP/IP stack, HTTP/HTTPS protocol behaviors, DNS resolution, and SSL/TLS certificate management.
- Troubleshooting Logic: Ability to trace a packet from client to server and identify where it drops. You understand ping, traceroute, and are highly proficient with tcpdump/Wireshark and F5 logging.
- Linux/Unix Literacy: Comfortable working in a Linux shell environment.
- Nice-to-Have (Bonus Points):
- Cisco Experience: Familiarity with Cisco routing and switching (particularly Nexus infrastructure) to understand the broader network context.
- SRE/DevOps Skills: Scripting in Python or experience automating load balancer configurations via REST APIs or other automation frameworks.
- Certifications: F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) or Technical Specialist (F5-CTS), or equivalent real-world experience.
We need to preserve the nested bullet? The instruction says use
- for any list. For nested items we could still use
- with subtext. Could also embed a sublist but not required. Simpler: keep each bullet as
- and include the sub-bullets as part of the same li text, maybe using commas. We'll keep as:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years' of relevant experience
- F5 Fluency: Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ infrastructure. You must be comfortable navigating both the GUI and tmsh command-line interface, managing Virtual Servers, Pools, Profiles, and iRules.
- Application Delivery Fundamentals: Deep understanding of the TCP/IP stack, HTTP/HTTPS protocol behaviors, DNS resolution, and SSL/TLS certificate management.
- Troubleshooting Logic: Ability to trace a packet from client to server and identify where it drops. You understand ping, traceroute, and are highly proficient with tcpdump/Wireshark and F5 logging.
- Linux/Unix Literacy: Comfortable working in a Linux shell environment.
- Nice-to-Have (Bonus Points): Cisco Experience: Familiarity with Cisco routing and switching (particularly Nexus infrastructure) to understand the broader network context.; SRE/DevOps Skills: Scripting in Python or experience automating load balancer configurations via REST APIs or other automation frameworks.; Certifications: F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) or Technical Specialist (F5-CTS), or equivalent real-world experience. But that loses separation. Better to keep sub-items as separate
- under a nested
- . The instruction didn't forbid nested lists. It said use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a
- for the main qualifications, and inside the Nice-to-Have we can have another
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years' of relevant experience
- F5 Fluency: Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ infrastructure. You must be comfortable navigating both the GUI and tmsh command-line interface, managing Virtual Servers, Pools, Profiles, and iRules.
- Application Delivery Fundamentals: Deep understanding of the TCP/IP stack, HTTP/HTTPS protocol behaviors, DNS resolution, and SSL/TLS certificate management.
- Troubleshooting Logic: Ability to trace a packet from client to server and identify where it drops. You understand ping, traceroute, and are highly proficient with tcpdump/Wireshark and F5 logging.
- Linux/Unix Literacy: Comfortable working in a Linux shell environment.
- Nice-to-Have (Bonus Points):
- Cisco Experience: Familiarity with Cisco routing and switching (particularly Nexus infrastructure) to understand the broader network context.
- SRE/DevOps Skills: Scripting in Python or experience automating load balancer configurations via REST APIs or other automation frameworks.
- Certifications: F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) or Technical Specialist (F5-CTS), or equivalent real-world experience.
- .
Pay: The paragraph: "Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $100,246.00 - $164,689.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire and does not reflect future job opportunity."
We need to preserve all that. So
Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including
- . That seems okay.
Thus:
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a