Senior Network Designer
About The Position
The Boeing Company is seeking a highly experienced, detail-oriented Senior Network Designer to join its team. The role focuses on the architecture, implementation, and optimization of enterprise load balancing and application delivery solutions supporting critical business and manufacturing applications. The position calls for extensive experience with application delivery controllers, traffic management technologies, and network infrastructure, particularly F5 platforms and solutions. The successful candidate will bring expertise in enterprise load balancing and application delivery, along with architectural, troubleshooting, and automation capabilities. They will lead strategic initiatives and technology modernization efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable enterprise solutions. The role is based in one of the listed Boeing locations: Seattle, North Charleston, Everett, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, Berkeley, Hazelwood, or Ridley Park.
Requirements
- 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 and GTM/DNS.
- Successful candidates must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest assessment process.
- Must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements as a U.S. Person, as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise load balancing and application delivery solutions.
- Lead architecture and deployment of highly available, scalable, and resilient application delivery infrastructures.
- Provide advanced engineering expertise for F5 BIG-IP technologies, including 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.
- Use 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.
Benefits
- Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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