Senior F5 Application Delivery Network Engineer

Intel Corporation•Hillsboro, OR

3d•$137,610 - $227,270•Hybrid

About The Position

Intel Information Technology (IT) is seeking a Senior F5 Application Delivery Network Engineer to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable application delivery services across Intel’s global enterprise environment. The role is a senior technical contributor position focused on designing, implementing, automating, and supporting enterprise-scale application delivery and load-balancing solutions. The engineer works with network engineering, security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and manufacturing engineering teams to keep business-critical services available, secure, and optimized. The position provides technical leadership for F5 BIG-IP platforms and their lifecycle, resilience, standardization, and continuous improvement. It includes handling complex production and manufacturing incidents, guiding architecture and change readiness, documenting operational practices, and identifying automation and self-service opportunities. The engineer also collaborates with technology suppliers, mentors junior engineers, and helps guide new capabilities and deployments. The position is hybrid, with locations listed in Hillsboro, Oregon, and Folsom, California. It is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship. The role is listed as an Experienced Hire, Shift 1.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or another STEM-related field and 4 or more years of experience; or a master’s degree in a related field and 2 or more years of experience.
Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, load balancing, certificates, and application/network troubleshooting.
Experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting F5 BIG-IP modules, including lifecycle/configuration management and platform resiliency.
Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production environments.
Ability to troubleshoot incidents under operational pressure and drive issues through root-cause resolution.
Experience with LTM (Local Traffic Manager), virtual servers, pools, health monitors, profiles, persistence, SSL/TLS, and traffic management.
Experience developing iRules and advanced traffic-management policies.
This position is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience with infrastructure automation using Python, Ansible, REST APIs, or similar tools.
Experience integrating application delivery technologies with cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
Experience supporting large-scale manufacturing or other mission-critical environments.
F5 professional certification or equivalent demonstrated technical experience.
Experience designing resilient solutions and eliminating single points of failure.
Understanding of modern application architectures, APIs, containers, and cloud-native application delivery.

Responsibilities

Provide senior-level engineering expertise for F5 BIG-IP application delivery platforms.
Engineer, configure, test, and support application delivery and load-balancing solutions.
Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex F5 and application connectivity issues.
Serve as a senior escalation point for critical production and manufacturing incidents.
Drive platform availability, resiliency, standardization, and continuous improvement.
Lead evaluation, testing, pilot, and production readiness activities for major architecture, operating system, and configuration changes.
Develop and maintain standardized configurations, engineering documentation, operating procedures, and troubleshooting knowledge.
Lead or support platform lifecycle activities, including software upgrades and end-of-support/end-of-life refreshes.
Partner with manufacturing engineering teams on testing, releases, critical changes, factory shutdown activities, and complex production issues.
Work with F5 and other technology suppliers on complex technical issues and product escalations.
Review application requirements and translate them into secure, scalable, and highly available application delivery solutions.
Identify automation and self-service opportunities to improve engineering efficiency and reduce operational risk.
Participate in technical reviews and provide engineering guidance for new capabilities and deployments.
Mentor junior engineers and help build deeper technical capability across the team.