Senior Network Designer

Senior Network Designer Company:

The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is looking for a highly experienced and detail-oriented Senior Network Designer to join the team in Seattle, WA;
North Charleston, SC;
Everett, WA;
Long Beach, CA;
Huntington Beach, CA;
Seal Beach, CA;
Berkeley, MO;
Hazelwood, MO; or Ridley Park, PA.
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.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in enterprise load balancing and application delivery with strong architectural, troubleshooting, and automation capabilities. While experience with multiple ADC platforms is valued, significant hands-on experience with F5 technologies remains highly desirable. The candidate should be comfortable leading strategic initiatives, driving technology modernization efforts, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable enterprise solutions.

Position 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 (Required Skills/Experience):10+ years of experience with network design, architecture, protocols, security, and/or operations for effective network management and implementation5+ years of with F5 technologies including BIG-IP modules such as LTM, GTM/DNSPreferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

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…