Principal Network Engineer

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is a leading provider of wholesale funding for housing and community finance in New England serving more than 420 financial institutions across the region. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is committed to making New England a better place to live and do business, and our employees are integral to our success. As a cooperative, we are owned by more than 420 banks, credit unions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions that access tens of billions of dollars of our reliable, wholesale funding each year. Our funds are a vital resource that helps our members succeed, provide families with safe, decent affordable housing, and generate economic development that creates jobs in communities throughout our region. Our highly skilled team of 200 is diverse, innovative, collaborative, and passionate about the work we do. We seek other professionals excited to share their knowledge, talent, and passion for our mission to join our team. We offer opportunities for career development, robust benefits, and a work-life balance. Position Summary The Principal Network Engineer position is a hands-on principal-level strategic engineering role accountable for the design, architecture and hands-on implementation of the Bank’s network infrastructure hosted within the AWS cloud as well as some secondary responsibilities ensuring the health of on-premise LAN/WAN networks. This individual assumes the role of subject matter expert (SME) participating as part of project teams for technology solution implementations and will be part of a three-person network engineering team (two principal and one senior network engineer) and works closely within the Bank’s Infrastructure team while collaborating closely with other technology teams. This role also works with the Senior Network Engineer ensuring dayto-day support of the network environments is accomplished providing technical support and/or consultative input to enhance the productivity and effectiveness.

This role will be about 80% focused on projects and 20% day-to-day tasks and responsibilities. The ability to grow into a lead role is possible over time.

Only applicants with prior experience building production networks inside the AWS cloud (building out VPCs and Transit Gateways) will be considered for this role.

As supporting skillsets, the abilities to collaborate and communicate well, take accountability, and the desire to aim high, while positively engaging and contributing within a team environment is essential to support the Bank Technology’s vision;

“Enabling the Bank’s mission by delivering agile, secure, cost-efficient information technology solutions.”

This position is classified as sensitive and is subject to a credit check.

Classification: Public

This role will have a hybrid work schedule in our Boston office in accordance with the Bank’s Hybrid Work Program. More time will be encouraged in the office to support onboarding initially.

Specific Responsibilities

 Champion the Bank’s AWS network infrastructure strategy partnering with

the other Principal network engineer and architectural leads to evaluate

strategies, research infrastructure and cloud best practices, conduct

assessments, identify integration issues, prepare cost estimates and act

as the network subject matter expert (SME) on project initiatives.

 Accountability to ensure the LAN/WAN network administration and support

is managed properly, partnering with the Senior Network Engineer who is

primarily responsible for this support.

 Consult with Information Security on network security requirements,

evaluate monitoring and service delivery alternatives and implement

solutions.

 Provide production network support as an escalation point for the Senior

Network Engineer and the Bank’s applications as they relate to the

network.

 Engage in regularly scheduled disaster recovery exercises.

 Analyze system capacity and throughput requirements in response to

demand forecasts and operations trends to determine, plan and provide

for system capabilities required for projected workloads.

 Provide 24×7 on-call support when necessary, (shared between the three

Network Engineers), and carry a bank-issued smart phone to respond to

off hours support issues.

 Provide detailed, professional technical design and architectural

documentation.

 Other duties, as assigned.

Education

 B.S. degree with a Computer Science related curriculum or equivalent

experience is required.

Experience

 Current/prior experience building production networks inside AWS cloud (building

out VPCs and Transit Gateways) is required.

 Strong knowledge must be demonstrated for supporting services (Route 53,

Elastic Load Balancing, ALB, etc.)

 5-7 years of network architectural design skills.

 7-9 years of project participation as a network subject matter expert

responsible for network implementation and design.

 5-7 years of strong firewall administration, configuration and support with a

high level of skill administering a Checkpoint environment.

Classification: Public

 5-7 years of AWS networking design and implementation experience.

 1-3 years of telecom administration and support skills in a Cisco

environment preferred.

 Exposure to a financial services or other highly regulated environment

preferred.

Knowledge/Skills

 Solid network architectural background with the required hands-on

experience working with network technologies within AWS and a

fundamental familiarity of Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

 Understand automation methodologies leveraging scripting and

continuous development solutions for network implementations within a

cloud data center.

 A high level of responsiveness to the customer to build trust and

credibility.

 Must have excellent interpersonal skills, specifically the ability to

communicate and collaborate effectively within technical and nontechnical teams, adapting communication and presentation style for the

intended audience.

 Must be a self-starter with excellent planning and organizational skills and

can exercise independent judgment while participating in various complex

and sometimes concurrent projects from inception through completion.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage applicants from every ethnicity, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, veteran or parental status and sexual orientation.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

A diverse talent pool is what we need to meet our business needs.

Applications are being accepted on the Careers page of our website: www.fhlbboston.com