Sr Systems Engineer

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.

Position Summary

The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability availability and scalability of critical infrastructure systems and SaaS platforms. Systems under the care of a Senior Systems Engineer must operate effectively and reliably through scalable solutions and complex architecturesthat encompass modern technologies. You will work closely with technical and nontechnical teams within the organization to facilitate the design and implementation of solutions drive automation initiatives and monitor and maintain the performance of critical systems.

What Youll Do

• Apply modern engineering principles and practices to operational functions and employ this methodology throughout the full system lifecycle; from initial concept and architecture through deployment daily operation and overall optimization and apply these practices to refining existing systems.
• Support and maintain technology systems to ensure optimal performance reliability and security.
• Build and deploy technology solutions translated from user stories and requirements.
• Manage the system lifecycle from implementation to shut down and decommissioning.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as automation and evolve systems by fostering changes that improve velocity. Leverage automation and configuration management to streamline systems administration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues including systems failures connectivity problems and performance bottlenecks.
• Support and manage datacenter components including system lifecycles.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to design and implement scalable and robust system architectures.
• Evaluate and recommend new solutions tools and methodologies to enhance system efficiency security and productivity.
• Provide technical leadership on complex systems and projects and mentorship for other team members and colleagues.
• Monitor system performance and proactively identify potential issues generate meaningful reports and implement preventive measures to maintain system health and uptime.
• Conduct performance tuning and optimization activities to maximize system efficiency and response times.
• Respond to and help manage incidents.
• Participate in RCA activities and assist with defining SLOs and SLIs for business stakeholders.
• Implement and enforce security best practices to protect our systems data and infrastructure against unauthorized access cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Create and maintain comprehensive knowledge bases for system documentation including standard operating procedures configurations and troubleshooting guides to support endusers ability to use the systems effectively.
• Participate in oncall rotation.
• Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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

What Youll Bring

• Experience with collocated/hosted datacenter management (hardware racks power connectivity etc..
• Excellent handson experience and skills with virtualized infrastructure hosting platforms serverbased operating systems applications and general IT infrastructure operations.
• Advanced knowledge in technology systems including cloud platforms SaaS platforms containerization and orchestration.
• Proficient familiarity with IT compliance protocols (SOX NIST ISO etc.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps and/or Jira for tracking deliverables.
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as an integral member of an agile team.
• Experience with observability tooling including logging infrastructure tracing systems alert definitions etc.
• Proficient communication planning problem solving trouble shooting and organization skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing project requirements and timelines.

Qualifications

• College degree in technologybased disciplines or equivalent applicable experience.
• Minimum 5 years of enterpriselevel engineering experience.
• 8 years of experience in Systems Engineering or a similar role in a technologybased environment.
• Strong proficiency in scripting languages.
• Hands on experience with technology systems tools protocols and platforms.

F5 Networks Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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

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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link:https://www.f5/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 or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5 or @myworkday.

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 .