At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

The Security and Distributed Cloud (SDC) team at F5 seeks an Architect to offer technical leadership as part of our network and infrastructure group offering managed services. This position will contribute to the compute, storage, and network infrastructure providing a platform to operate services including DDOS mitigation, Web Application and API Protection, and Bot Mitigation with focus on orchestration, performance, scalability, and cost effectiveness. This position will interface with the F5 BIG-IP development team as well as other architects within different product groups.

Primary Responsibilities:

Serves as senior source of technical expertise to multiple project teams.
Helps detail all aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.
Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes, technologies and standards.
Leads, reviews and may direct the architecture of F5's key hardware and software components.
Prepare/analyze/architect product for future scalability.
Devises and develops new solutions that may involve cross-module dependencies.
Lead multi-functional design teams to develop new product as well as address design issues / maintenance of existing ones.
Regularly informs top management and senior external personnel on company’s technical capabilities and future direction.
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.
Act as a mentor for other junior members in the team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Extensive experience with orchestration systems and automation-first design methodologies.
Experience designing APIs.
Experience designing globally distributed systems.
Experience with software development in Linux environment.
Strong practical networking experience.
Experience with F5 BIG-IP strongly preferred.
Experience with Kubernetes container environments preferred.
Experience utilizing hardware accelerators to augment software solutions strongly preferred including a familiarity with identifying operations potentially offloaded by FPGAs and GPUs.
Internally and externally recognized as a premier technical, industry or product specialist.
Is well respected by key collaborators and peers across broader Product Development organization.
Experience leading complex product development initiatives from concept through release.
Strong leadership skills and an ability to mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience.

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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.

The annual U.S. base pay range for this position is: $220,327.00 - $330,491.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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

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