Description
The Boeing Company is seeking a highly experienced Senior Network Designer to join the team in various locations across the United States.
This role focuses on the architecture, implementation, and optimization of enterprise load balancing and application delivery solutions that support critical business and manufacturing applications.
The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience with application delivery controllers (ADCs), traffic management technologies, and network infrastructure, with deep expertise in F5 platforms and solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise load balancing and application delivery solutions
- Lead the architecture and deployment of highly available, scalable, and resilient application delivery infrastructures
- Provide advanced engineering expertise for F5 BIG-IP technologies, including Local Traffic Manager (LTM), DNS/GTM, SSL/TLS services, and application security capabilities
- Design and implement local and global load balancing strategies to optimize application performance and availability
- Develop and maintain traffic management policies, health monitoring solutions, and application delivery standards
- Integrate load balancing and application delivery technologies into cloud, hybrid, and traditional data center environments
- Collaborate with network, cloud, security, application, and infrastructure teams to align technical solutions with business objectives
- Leverage automation technologies, APIs, scripting, and infrastructure automation frameworks to improve operational efficiency
- Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, performance, and security to ensure reliable service delivery
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex application delivery and traffic management issues
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, configuration standards, and capacity planning artifacts
- Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continual service improvement initiatives
- Research and evaluate emerging application delivery and load balancing technologies to support future business needs
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience with network design, architecture, protocols, security, and/or operations for effective network management and implementation
- 5+ years of experience with F5 technologies including BIG-IP modules such as LTM, GTM/DNS
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of Layer 4 through Layer 7 networking principles and traffic management concepts
- Experience with HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS encryption, DNS, TCP/IP, routing, switching, and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Experience configuring and administering health monitoring, traffic optimization, and application availability services
- Experience with network monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnostic tools
- Ability to analyze and resolve complex technical issues within enterprise environments
- Advanced expertise with F5 BIG-IP technologies, including LTM, DNS/GTM, VELOS, VIPRION, and distributed application delivery solutions
- Experience with modern load balancing platforms such as F5, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI), A10 Networks, Citrix ADC, or comparable technologies
- F5 certifications such as F5 Certified Technology Specialist (CTS), F5 Certified Administrator, or F5 Certified Solutions Expert (CSE)
- Experience with cloud-based application delivery and load balancing solutions across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
- Experience with Web Application Firewall (WAF) technologies and application security best practices
- Experience developing automation solutions using Python, Ansible, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), or similar technologies
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, SolarWinds, or related tools
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience leading technical projects and cross-functional engineering initiatives
- Experience with IT Service Management (ITSM), Incident Management, Problem Management, and ServiceNow
Benefits:
- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work