Sr Mgr, Software Development Engineering

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.

Were looking for an experienced Sr. Manager to lead Firewall teams responsible for delivering securing application traffic across diverse environments including on-premises cloud and hybrid deployment. Youll own roadmap execution elevate engineering excellence and partner crossfunctionally to deliver capabilities that delight customers and meet stringent security and compliance expectations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support mentor and coach as well as provide professional development for your team. Collaborate across teams and deliver high quality software to meet customer needs.
• Advise on the architecture code patterns testing and continuous integration details.
• Take ownership of customer issues with timely fixes and provide proper RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the wider group.
• Collaborate with leaders in engineering and product management on roadmap strategy coordinating dependencies and establishing clear requirements to effectively meet delivery and quality commitments.
• Perform continuous team member evaluations to enable frequent feedback.
• Identify hiring needs and be the hiring manager for recruiting engineers.
• Motivate and foster a collaborative environment within your team actively engaging with senior management and executives. Adopt a managerial approach that emphasizes support and empowerment for your teams while also championing the cultivation of a positive and cohesive team culture.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Experience and passion for taking a leading role in building complex software systems delivered successfully to customers.
• Good understanding of Firewalls NAT and Intrusion Prevention/Detection System (IPS/IDS) technologies.
• Experience in working with of L2- L4 network protocols (TCP/IP UDP HTTP/S DNS etc.) and system programming.
• Hands-on experience in Kubernetes & cloud technologies and deployments.
• Experience in load-balancing technology
• Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and practices for full software development process including coding standards code reviews build process CI/CD testing and operations.
• Working experience in Agile software development methodology.
• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing people.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelors degree; or 6 years and a masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of prior experience in managing team of software engineers.

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.

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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 .