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
Company Overview
Answering God's call to bring health, healing and hope to all. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://healthcare.ascension.org.