Network Engineer/Planner

Ford Motor Company

Network Engineer/Planner at Ford focusing on application delivery controllers and load balancers. Requires strong networking experience, particularly with F5 Big-IP and AS3.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $99,600 - $166,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DNSITSMJavaScriptLinuxNGINXNode.jsSwiftSwitchingTCP/IPUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Bring leadership to all network automation developers and other service teams needing to supply to or demonstrate that automation.
Provide engineering, planning, and provisioning of infrastructure required to facilitate the operation of our services, including that for our customers consumption as well as the servers and load balancing equipment we use to provide our own application services with.
Assist and maintain load balancing deployments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) methodologies to maintain consistent and auditable records of said deployments.
Provide detailed planning, tracking, and lifecycle management of complex load balancing environments, in varied locations across the globe, supporting mixed network topologies and handling coordination with local and remote teams.
Whole datacenter migrations of thousands of applications.
Idempotent deployments of net-new applications in bulk or scripted requests.
Mass migration of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) deployments of AS3 declarations between load balancers to facilitate evergreen movement of load balancing equipment.
Staged and automated roll-out of upgraded operating system or patches for load balancing equipment.
Provide periodic audit and analysis of application deployment data.
Be a champion for financial audit, compliance, and tracking of key assets through from procurement to installation and ultimately decommission; assist in device lifecycle management
Plan and execute on swift but complex migrations of application traffic in varying manufacturing network topologies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field and/or some relevant college with combined equivalent experience
4+ years of practical operating experience with F5 BigIP products (load balancers).
1+ years of experience with Node.js, at least cursory experience as a software developer
4+ years of experience working with F5 AS3 (Application Services 3 Extension).
****Even better, you may have...**
- F5, Cisco (CCNA+), and industry certifications or specialized training
- Experience working with API gateways, NGINX or NGINX-plus preferred.
- Agile and Project management tooling experience (JIRA is a plus)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working in large scale enterprise datacenter fabrics using SDN (Software Defined Networking).
- Experience working with Linux/Unix environments.
- Understanding of the building blocks of computer networks.
- Previous experience with infrastructure automation.
- Ability to gather customer requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
- Strong problem solving and coding skills.
- Core understanding of Telecommunications Technologies, in particular TCP/IP networks including Security principles, Virtual Machine, Authentication technologies, NAT, DNS, Firewall, Proxy, Routing, switching, and network application technologies.
- Knowledge of Agile practices and Design Thinking Process.
- Comprehensive experience working in an agile development team.
- Experience writing, tracking, and handling user stories for software development or infrastructure deployment activities.
- High degree of self-motivation and multitasking.
- Good knowledge about network services and application communication over internet protocols.
- Willingness to learn and to embrace to new technologies, processes, and methods.
- Attitude to adopt certifications in networking subject area (i.e. CCNA) would be preferred.
- Sound knowledge of global ITSM / ITIL environment.
- Service oriented behavior and customer focused attitude are essential.
- Experience in aspects of project management.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Load BalancingInfrastructure AutomationNetwork TopologiesApplication DeploymentSDN (Software Defined Networking)Linux/Unix EnvironmentsTelecommunications TechnologiesAPI GatewaysNetwork Application TechnologiesUser Story Management

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsProblem SolvingSelf-MotivationMultitaskingCustomer Focused Attitude

Certifications

CCNAF5 Certifications