Network Systems Specialist II

Title Network Systems Specialist II

Job Type Regular

Company Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department Information Technology

Time Type Full time

Weekly Hours 40

Fte 1

Shift First Shift (United States of America)

Summary About the Role:

At Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, technology plays a critical role in supporting patient care, research, and innovation. As an F5 Application Delivery & Web Application Security Engineer, you’ll help protect and optimize the systems that connect patients, clinicians, researchers, and employees to the applications they rely on every day.

In this highly visible role, you will serve as the primary expert for Roswell Park’s F5 platform, ensuring our public-facing applications remain secure, available, and performing at their best. You will work at the intersection of infrastructure, cybersecurity, and application delivery, helping defend against evolving cyber threats while enabling secure access to critical services.

This position is ideal for a technology professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, enhancing security, and collaborating across teams to make a meaningful impact.

The starting annual salary for this position is $101,410 and this can include a full comprehensive benefits package.

What You’ll Do As a key member of our Infrastructure Engineering team, you will:

Application Delivery & Load Balancing

Design, administer, and support Roswell Park’s enterprise F5 BIG-IP environment

Configure and maintain load balancing, traffic management, DNS services, SSL/TLS encryption, reverse proxy services, and high-availability solutions

Build and support virtual servers, pools, health monitors, profiles, and traffic management policies

Develop and maintain automation workflows and F5 configurations

Manage software upgrades, platform migrations, hardware refreshes, and lifecycle planning

Oversee SSL certificate management and secure application publishing

Web Application Security

Design, implement, and optimize F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) protections for internet-facing applications

Monitor and respond to web application security events and emerging threats

Tune security policies to balance strong protection with application performance and availability

Partner with application teams to securely onboard new applications and services

Help protect systems against common web-based attacks and vulnerabilities

Support security assessments, remediation efforts, and compliance activities

Implement advanced security controls such as bot protection, rate limiting, geolocation filtering, and threat intelligence services

Perimeter & Network Security

Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure teams to strengthen Roswell Park’s internet-facing security posture

Support firewall, network segmentation, and secure access initiatives

Participate in Zero Trust and modern security architecture projects

Assist with vulnerability remediation and security hardening efforts

Analyze network and application traffic to troubleshoot performance and connectivity issues

Operational Excellence

Monitor the health, performance, and security of critical infrastructure

Troubleshoot complex application delivery and network issues

Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and implementation plans

Participate in scheduled maintenance activities and on-call support for critical systems

What You’ll Bring You may be a great fit for this role if you:

Have hands-on experience supporting F5 BIG-IP technologies, including load balancing and web application security

Enjoy securing applications and solving complex infrastructure challenges

Understand networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, VLANs, NAT, and high-availability design

Have experience working with web application firewalls, perimeter security technologies, or enterprise firewalls

Can analyze application and network traffic to identify and resolve issues

Communicate effectively and enjoy partnering with technical and non-technical teams

Take a proactive approach to improving security, reliability, and system performance

Thrive in environments where security, co…