Software-Based Load Balancing Expert - remote - consultancy

This is a remote position. We are looking for an experienced engineer or architect who haspersonally designed and implemented large-scale, horizontally scalable software load balancing solutions, using technologies such as HAProxy, NGINX, or equivalent. The objective is to learn from practical experience how software-based load balancing can provide the required capabilities without relying on hardware load balancer appliances. Specific scope: - Architectures supporting hundreds of thousands of requests per second. - Horizontally scalable farms of software load balancers. - Load balancing a single application exposed through a single IP address. - Design approaches such as Anycast, hierarchical load balancing, or other relevant architectures. - Understanding the design, advantages, disadvantages, and trade-offs of these approaches. - Limited header rewriting requirements. The opportunity would initially involve short-term technical consulting, with potential for further work as the project progresses. Requirements - Strong experience with F5 BIG-IP - Hands-on experience with HAProxy, NGINX or similar software load balancers - Strong knowledge of HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and SSL termination - Experience designing high-throughput, highly available load-balancing platforms - Knowledge of Anycast, horizontal scaling and multi-tier load-balancing architectures - Experience with header/content rewriting is beneficial Key requirement:We are specifically looking for someone with hands-on experience building and operating solutions of this type at scale, rather than someone offering a theoretical assessment. Originally posted on Himalayas