Network Engineer Expert - Load Balancing

About AXA

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we've created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we're nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you'll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You'll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

About the entity

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

• State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
• State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
• High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

Job position pitch

As part of AXA's strategy to become a tech-led organization and advance our Digital Transformation journey through the "One Network" initiative, Network Global Products are adopting a more simplified, flexible, scalable, and business-oriented approach. This transformation involves consolidating multiple network infrastructures into a single, resilient, efficient, and automated network that can be centrally managed, providing a seamless experience across geographies.

While supporting the strategic migration of applications to the cloud, this evolution enhances AXA's ability to respond swiftly to market dynamics, ensuring high service quality, operational efficiency, and a robust security posture. Concurrently, AXA will maintain its existing on-premises legacy data center infrastructure, focusing on reducing technical debt and transforming its core IT footprint.

Several factors drive this transformation, including the need for high-speed, direct connectivity; optimization of data center space; rethinking data center urbanization and IP services; aligning with green IT objectives and power consumption reduction; enabling automation and scalability in infrastructure provisioning; and shifting security paradigms towards simplification and tighter control.

Within this context, our Data Center and Cloud Network engineers are instrumental in designing, engineering, delivering, and supporting products and services that significantly contribute to the success of the One Network program.

Our Application Delivery engineers play a key role in supporting AXA's "One Network" transformation by migrating VIPs from legacy Viprion hardware to modern virtual solutions on Cisco ACI Fabric. This migration enhances application availability, operational efficiency, and security across the organization. The F5 load balancing platform provides scalable, automated, and resilient application delivery to meet evolving business needs. This evolution simplifies management, accelerates incident response, and strengthens network capabilities. Ultimately, it ensures AXA's network infrastructure remains flexible, secure, and aligned with our digital transformation objectives.

About the job

Main missions

Your responsibilities include:

• Design, deploy, and maintain F5 load balancing solutions, including VIPs, pools, and profiles
• Lead the decommissioning of Viprion chassis and migrate VIPs to the F5 Virtual Edition on Cisco ACI Fabric, ensuring minimal disruption
• Troubleshoot and support F5 infrastructure to ensure high application performance and availability
• Develop documentation for low-level designs, configurations, migration plans, and operational procedures
• Collaborate with teams to gather requirements, support projects, and ensure security and scalability
• Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience strategies
• Implement upgrade and patching roadmaps and disaster recovery plans for F5 environments
• Support team knowledge sharing and documentation updates
• Ensure reliable, secure operation of AXA's F5 infrastructure, including migrating VIPs from Viprion to virtual solutions
• Lead migration projects with minimal service impact, supporting digital transformation ambitions
• Enable rapid incident response and troubleshooting during migration and day-to-day operations
• Promote continuous improvement through documentation, knowledge sharing, and best practices
• Support scalability and resilience of application delivery infrastructure for future growth

Expected skills & experience

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

Experience

• Proven experience deploying F5 solutions, hardware decommissioning, VIP creation, VIP migration, and automation in enterprise environments
• Hands-on with Viprion hardware, F5, and Cisco ACI Fabric integration
• Skilled in technical documentation, migration planning, and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of load balancing, application security, high availability, and network integration best practices

Skills

• 8-10 years of experience in F5 load balancing, VIP migration, and infrastructure automation
• Fluency in English
• Strong skills in BIG-IP configuration, VIP migration, and hardware decommissioning
• Strong skills in Terraform automation and Python scripting
• Familiarity with Cisco ACI Fabric and integration strategies
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
• Up to date with trends in load balancing, security, and automation solutions

What we offer

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we're committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

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