L3 Load Balancer Architect (F5) (m/w/d) – Winterthur Area

We are seeking an experienced L3 Load Balancer Architect (F5) to provide technical leadership and architecture governance for enterprise application delivery and load balancing services. The role is responsible for designing, governing, and optimizing F5 BIG-IP environments, ensuring secure, resilient, and high-performing application delivery across critical business platforms. As a senior technical authority, you will support complex incidents, lead architectural decisions, and establish operational standards for implementation and support teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and govern F5 BIG-IP application delivery and load balancing architectures.
• Provide expertise across LTM, ASM/APM, SSL offloading, ADC technologies, iRules, traffic management, and high-availability cluster designs.
• Define secure, scalable, and resilient application delivery patterns aligned with enterprise infrastructure standards.
• Lead architecture reviews, major changes, and complex troubleshooting activities.
• Act as the technical escalation point for critical incidents and application delivery challenges.
• Develop and maintain standards, governance frameworks, and operational procedures for F5 services.
• Ensure load balancing solutions support security, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with networking, security, cloud, and application teams to deliver integrated platform solutions.
• Produce and maintain architecture documentation, design standards, and operational guidance.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise F5 BIG-IP environments.
• Deep knowledge of LTM, ASM/APM, SSL/TLS technologies, ADC concepts, traffic policies, iRules, and high-availability architectures.
• Strong understanding of application delivery, network architectures, security controls, and performance optimization.
• Experience supporting complex incident resolution, root cause analysis, and large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Ability to translate business and application requirements into operationally sustainable technical solutions.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Certifications:

• F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS)
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (BIG-IP LTM) Certification
• F5 Certified Solution Expert (F5-CSE) in Security or Cloud preferred
• Additional Security, Network, Storage, or Compute infrastructure certifications are advantageous

Language Requirement:

• German language proficiency at minimum B2 level is mandatory.
• The role requires the ability to participate in technical discussions, incident coordination, service reviews, change management activities, and day-to-day communication with German-speaking stakeholders, customer teams, operational contacts, and site personnel.

Citizenship Requirement:

• Applicants must hold Swiss citizenship.

Location:

• Winterthur area, Switzerland
• Candidates should be based in, or regularly available within the Winterthur region to support local operational alignment, customer interaction, coordination with onsite and remote-hands teams, and participation in governance, escalation, architecture, and service review meetings as required.