Senior F5 Application Delivery Network Engineer

Intel•Hillsboro, OR

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Intel Information Technology is seeking a Senior F5 Application Delivery Network Engineer to join a team delivering secure, reliable, and scalable application delivery services across Intel’s global enterprise environment. The role is a senior technical contributor responsible for 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 highly available, secure, and optimized for performance. The position includes engineering and supporting F5 BIG-IP platforms, resolving complex production and application-connectivity issues, improving platform availability and resiliency, and leading readiness work for significant architecture and configuration changes. The engineer also supports platform lifecycle management, supplier escalations, operational documentation, automation, technical reviews, and mentoring junior engineers. The role supports large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure and contributes to modernization, automation, security, and reliability initiatives. This position is eligible for Intel’s hybrid work model, splitting time between the assigned Intel site and off-site. Primary locations are Hillsboro, Oregon, and Folsom, California. The position is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship.

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; alternatively, 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 and configuration management and platform resiliency.
Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production environments.
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.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a structured approach to troubleshooting.
Ability to manage priorities and make sound decisions in fast-paced environments.
Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical teams.
Strong ownership and accountability for service reliability and operational excellence.
Commitment to documentation, process improvement, and knowledge sharing.
Customer-focused approach and understanding of business impact and service quality.
Resilience and composure during production incidents and critical situations.
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 opportunities for automation and self-service 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.
Troubleshoot incidents under operational pressure and drive issues through root-cause resolution.
Collaborate across technical and non-technical teams, communicate technical guidance, and contribute to process improvement and knowledge sharing.