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Position Summary

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and quality.

We are looking for an experienced Architect to help design and implement features for our next generation management product for BIG-IP that configures and manages both application delivery configuration and security policies onto a fleet of dataplane devices at scale. If you are passionate about developing applications based on a microservice based architecture and deployed to a containerized environment such as Kubernetes, we would love to talk to you. The position provides great technical and thought leadership opportunities that can make a significant impact to how our customers deliver highly secure and performant applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as a source of technical expertise to multiple project teams


• Work with product managers to build a technology roadmap and architectural vision for the product keeping in mind future scalability


• Leads, reviews and helps direct F5’s key hardware and software components


• Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes, and technologies.


• Bring best industry practices and help navigate changing technologies and upcoming trends to create a strategic company product roadmap


• Integrates research and emerging business/industry trends into company product platforms.


• F5 technology spokesperson at internal and external forums


• Creates formal networks with key decision makers and serves as external spokesperson for the organization.


• Collaborate and mentor team members and technical leads


• Be an Advocate for Quality.


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Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Solid experience in microservices based development architecture and deployment


• Solid coding experience (Golang, React JS, Python Bash)


• Internally and externally recognized as a premier technical, industry or product specialist.


• Industry respected speaker, participating in both internal and external events for your product


• Brings the voice of the customer into the SDLC


• Expert Knowledge and extensive experience with network and web technologies.


• Worked extensively on Management plane


• Experience leading complex product development initiatives from concept through release.


• Exceptional problem solving and project management skills.


• Strong leadership skills and an ability to mentor and groom other engineers.


• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.


• Strong background working in Agile environments and with Agile methodologies.


• Able to communicate ideas, make and influence decisions and inspire others

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 9 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 6 years; or equivalent experience.

F5, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace diversity

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

Salary: $289,627.00