Application Delivery Network Architect (26-00740) -

We are looking for an Application Delivery Network Architect.

Position Overview

The Application Delivery Network Architect will join a customer's Network Architecture and Engineering team within its infrastructure services organization. This senior-level role is responsible for architecting, designing, and supporting a global Application Delivery framework for a large enterprise environment.

The architect will develop strategic roadmaps and produce high-level and low-level designs for Application Delivery technologies. This individual will also advise application, infrastructure, engineering, and operations teams on how to use the architecture effectively, improve resiliency, and automate key services.

Responsibilities

• Create strategic roadmaps for Application Delivery products and establish a vision for the evolution of advanced Application Delivery services.
• Evaluate the broader Application Delivery ecosystem and recommend how its capabilities should support enterprise technology and business strategies.
• Prepare and present executive-level materials explaining proposed architectures, recommendations, business benefits, and financial considerations.
• Participate in technical workshops and working sessions to identify tactical and strategic priorities.
• Take primary architectural ownership of the Application Delivery platform and its integration with firewalls, physical networks, virtual networks, cloud platforms, and supporting infrastructure.
• Assess existing Application Delivery platforms and use those findings to design comprehensive future-state solutions.
• Produce high-level design and low-level design documentation for delivery, engineering, operations, and support teams.
• Partner with resiliency and business continuity programs to apply Application Delivery features that improve availability and recovery capabilities.
• Lead the design and oversee the deployment of Application Delivery services across multiple geographic regions.
• Coordinate with regional engineering teams and third-party vendors to support consistent and successful implementations.
• Ensure regional services address local technical, financial, and business requirements while remaining aligned with the global architecture.
• Provide deployment guidance and technical assistance to engineering and operations teams.
• Advise application architects, infrastructure engineers, systems teams, and operations teams on Application Delivery capabilities and recommended implementation patterns.
• Build strong working relationships across application and infrastructure organizations and serve as an advocate for the Application Delivery platform.
• Recommend and drive the adoption of tools for performance monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and inventory management.
• Identify automation opportunities and develop use cases that improve the delivery and management of Application Delivery services.
• Follow established procedures and self-service processes while working independently with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Eight to ten years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting Application Delivery solutions in large enterprise environments.
• Direct experience designing and implementing large-scale, global Application Delivery architectures.
• Expert knowledge of the Open Systems Interconnection model, commonly known as the OSI model.
• Expert understanding of the Domain Name System, or DNS.
• Hands-on experience implementing or supporting Web Application Firewall, or WAF, technologies.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Unix operating systems.
• Demonstrated scripting, infrastructure automation, and configuration management experience.
• Experience producing high-level and low-level architecture and design documentation.
• Ability to develop architecture recommendations that include business and financial justification.
• Experience presenting technical strategies and proposed solutions to peers, application architects, infrastructure teams, and senior management.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to lead technical activities involving regional teams, internal stakeholders, contractors, and third-party vendors.
• Self-directed approach with the ability to establish technical direction, identify improvement opportunities, and provide leadership with minimal supervision.
• Hands-on experience with Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls is preferred.

Tools and Technologies

• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, or F5 LTM
• F5 DNS
• NSX Advanced Load Balancer, formerly Avi Networks
• Web Application Firewall technologies
• Microsoft Azure native load balancing
• Amazon Web Services native load balancing
• Google Cloud Platform native load balancing
• Infoblox
• BlueCat
• Cloudflare
• Amazon Route 53
• Akamai
• IBM DNS services
• Global Content Delivery Network services, including Akamai
• Python
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Linux and Unix
• Border Gateway Protocol
• Palo Alto Networks firewalls
• Performance, capacity, and inventory management tools