Team Lead – Systems Architect (Traffic Management)
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Lalaith Astor Technical Consulting House (LATCH) provides technical consulting services to the US Federal Government. We provide dependable high-quality solutions as well as innovative architecture, engineering, and functional designs. Our core values enable us to bring unique viewpoints as we approach our work such as understanding and adopting the customer’s mission, delivering technical solutions that are aligned to customer goals, objectives, and budgets, empowering customers through systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA) services, and producing high quality, value-driven work products.
At LATCH, you’ll work with customers and a leadership team that empowers our people to think audaciously, welcomes differences, and encourages pride in our work, while exposing and solving emerging challenges to meet impactful commitments.
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MISSION AND VALUES
- Foster a company culture that focuses on trust, equitability, service, and collaboration.
- Establish a leadership team that embodies these ideals.
- Empower our people to act with integrity, authenticity, and authority to lift up the people in our organization, the partners with whom we work, and the customers that we serve.
- Serve our customers by understanding and adopting their mission; providing them with solutions that are aligned to their goals, objectives, and budgets; and delivering high quality, value-driven work products.
- Execute solutions that create and drive innovations by using emerging technologies, next generation concepts, and advanced tool sets in new and exciting ways.
JOB SUMMARY
LATCH is searching for a skilled Technical Lead to oversee a small, hands-on engineering team focused on architecting, deploying, and fine-tuning application traffic management (ATM) and load balancing solutions.
This hybrid role combines leadership responsibilities with deep technical involvement- perfect for someone who thrives on solving challenges while mentoring others. You’ll work with the program manager to set technical direction, support junior engineers’ growth, and drive the delivery of resilient, high-performance solutions aligned with a federal agency mission.
This is a technical leadership role. Its not just about what you can do, but how you help others succeed.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following tasks:
- Architect, implement, maintain ATM and F5 BIG-IP ADC solutions across cloud and on-prem environments
- Lead integration efforts and optimize performance in hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Mentor junior engineers on traffic engineering principles, load balancing (L4–L7), and building resilient application architectures
- Automate infrastructure provisioning with scripting tools
- Develop and update technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and GitLab repositories
- Implement and manage backup procedures, certificate lifecycle automation, and active monitoring solutions
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for deployments and production issue resolution
- Partner with development teams to refine traffic strategies and ensure scalable, high-performing services
TEAM LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS
- Supervise a small team of engineers with an emphasis on mentorship, shared learning, and collaborative problem-solving
- Provide technical vision while empowering team members to lead key efforts
- Balance strategic architectural oversight with hands-on engineering contributions
- Assist with task prioritization, resource allocation, and team capability building
- Promote a team culture grounded in transparency, curiosity, and continuous growth
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, AND SKILLS
- Over 12 years of experience in IT, including 3–5 years in traffic engineering, network architecture, or a related field. A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology may substitute for up to four years of experience.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, high availability systems, and load balancing strategies
- Proficient with F5 BIG-IP (LTM, WAF, iRules) and familiar with cloud-native load balancer technologies
- Skilled in performance optimization and resolving complex application delivery issues
- Experience scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell and a strong drive for automation
- Proven track record of conducting peer reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and working across functions
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
It is desirable that the candidate has the following qualifications:
- Prior work with federal agencies, military environments, or other highly regulated sectors
- Experience integrating CA Layer7, OAuth/SAML, or Okta for identity and access management
Prefer experience with:
- Load Balancers / ADCs: F5 BIG-IP, Cloudflare
- Monitoring & Performance: ThousandEyes, Riverbed, Catchpoint, SolarWinds, Wireshark
- DDoS & Security: Cloudflare Magic Transit, Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower, Zscaler
- Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Cisco NSO
- Logging / Observability: Splunk
SCHEDULE
- On call
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
SALARY RANGE
$155,000.00 – $160,000.00 per year
BENEFITS
LATCH’s benefits program offers a comprehensive range of choices which include:
- 401(k) with matching
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
EEO STATEMENT
LATCH is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, national origin, ancestry, familial status, military status, age, disability, marital status, or status with regard to public assistance.