Load Balancing Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a Load Balancing Engineer to join an established healthcare organization for a contract to hire opportunity. This is a hybrid position in Center City Philadelphia, PA. The Load Balancing Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available load balancing solutions to support enterprise applications and services.

Responsibilities of the Load Balancing Engineer:

• Architect and deploy highly available and scalable load balancing solutions across applications, websites, and services.
• Administer and support load balancing technologies including F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, and Citrix NetScaler.
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks affecting load balancers and backend infrastructure.
• Continuously monitor traffic patterns and load distribution to enhance system performance and uptime.
• Partner with Network Security teams to align configurations with security standards and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications of the Load Balancing Engineer:

• Proven engineering experience with load balancing platforms, protocols, and configurations.
• Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, and Citrix NetScaler.
• Experience migrating load balancing platforms from legacy to modern solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for network and hardware issues.
• Working knowledge of switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless hardware.
• Familiarity with network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.
• Ability to work in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical teams.

Compensation for the Load Balancing Engineer:

• Target Converted Salary: $120,000-$125,000
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave if required by law

Keywords:

Load Balancing, F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, Citrix NetScaler, Network Engineering, Traffic Optimization, High Availability, Redundancy, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Network Protocols, Performance Troubleshooting, Infrastructure Migration, Network Security, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Wireless Hardware, Scalability, Compliance, Backend Servers, Traffic Analysis, System Monitoring, Enterprise Applications, IT Infrastructure.

This job opens for applications on 10/10/25. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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