Senior Network Architect: F5 & Enterprise Load Balancing

Boeing Co.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Boeing in Seattle seeks a Senior Network Designer to architect, implement, and optimize enterprise load balancing and application delivery solutions across global data centers. You will lead projects leveraging F5 BIG-IP technology and related platforms to ensure high availability and security for critical manufacturing and business applications.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and drive automation through Python and infrastructure as code, shaping

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

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 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

Skills

Network design

F5 BIG-IP

LTM/DNS

Automation

Cloud load balancing

Tools

F5 BIG-IP

DNS/GTM

Job description

Boeing in Seattle seeks a Senior Network Designer to architect, implement, and optimize enterprise load balancing and application delivery solutions across global data centers. You will lead projects leveraging F5 BIG-IP technology and related platforms to ensure high availability and security for critical manufacturing and business applications.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and drive automation through Python and infrastructure as code, shaping