[Remote] Senior Network Load Balancing Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system dedicated to reimagining healthcare. They are seeking a Senior Network Load Balancing Engineer to own and optimize enterprise load balancing and application delivery platforms, ensuring the availability and performance of critical business applications.
Responsibilities
- Own and optimize enterprise load balancing and application delivery platforms, ensuring the availability, performance, and resiliency of critical business applications
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex Layer 4–7 traffic management and application delivery issues, leading root-cause analysis and restoring service in high-availability production environments
- Drive continuous improvement across F5, Citrix ADC, and VMware AVI platforms through automation, optimization, application onboarding, and operational excellence initiatives
Skills
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 1 year of experience OR 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required
- 8–10+ years of experience in network engineering, with significant focus on load balancing and application delivery
- Proven experience operating in large-scale, enterprise environments
- Expert-level hands-on experience with: F5 BIG-IP platform, Citrix NetScaler / ADC, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI)
- Strong expertise in: Layer 4–7 protocols (HTTP/S, TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, DNS), Load balancing methods, persistence, and traffic steering, SSL offloading and certificate management
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-tier application issues
- F5 certifications (CTS or higher)
- Citrix ADC certifications (CCA-N / CCP-N or higher)
- VMware NSX / AVI-related certifications
- 2 years of leadership or management experience preferred
Benefits
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Various health insurance options & wellness plans
- Retirement benefits including employer match plans
- Long-term & short-term disability
- Employee assistance programs (EAP)
- Parental leave & adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Ways to give back to your community
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