Senior Director â Infrastructure
Senior Director â Infrastructure
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$ 263840 - 395760
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Job Description
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
We are seeking a visionary and execution-focused Senior Director of Infrastructure and Developer Experience to lead the strategy operations and delivery of our global infrastructure platforms and developer enablement programs. This role spans physical and cloud-based infrastructure networking and the full lifecycle of developer tooling and platform services. You will be responsible for ensuring scalable reliable and secure infrastructure operations while enhancing the developer experience through optimized CI/CD repository management and DevOps enablement.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
Lead the global infrastructure organization covering Cloud Operations Cloud Management Platforms Data Center Operations and Enterprise Networking.
Drive operational excellence and service reliability across hybrid environments (AWS Azure GCP and physical data centers).
Ensure high availability performance monitoring and incident response for mission-critical systems.
Champion automation observability and cost optimization across infrastructure services.
Oversee infrastructure governance including patching compliance and asset lifecycle management. Including FedRAMP and IL5 Federal compliance understanding and infrastructure
Manage the F5 AI internal GPT solution and enhancements to enable all business groups
Lead the F5 on f5 initiatives with product development teams and enterprise systems
Developer Experience & Enablement
Define and lead the strategy for a seamless Developer Experience (DevEx) across the enterprise.
Own and scale code repository management platforms (GitHub GitLab Azure DevOps Perforce) ensuring performance security and ease of use.
Deliver and evolve DevOps platforms CI/CD pipelines and internal developer portals enabling faster safer and more scalable software delivery.
Partner with engineering and product teams to understand friction points in development workflows and resolve them with platform solutions.
Advocate for engineering standards and best practices across the developer ecosystem.
Strategic Leadership & Execution
Build and lead high-performing global teams across infrastructure cloud and developer tooling.
Develop and manage multi-year roadmaps aligned to business growth security and operational goals.
Collaborate closely with Security Engineering Compliance and Product teams to align on architecture SLAs and enterprise tooling strategy.
Define KPIs and metrics to measure operational performance and developer productivity.
Drive vendor strategy and manage partner relationships for infrastructure platforms and developer tools.
Required Qualifications
10 years of experience in infrastructure platform engineering or developer tooling with 5 years in senior leadership roles.
Proven track record overseeing large-scale cloud environments and physical data centers in complex enterprise environments.
Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform Ansible) cloud-native operations and hybrid networking.
Deep understanding of developer platforms including source control (GitHub GitLab Perforce ADO) artifact repositories CI/CD frameworks and observability stacks.
Strong grasp of DevOps principles platform engineering and automation practices.
Experience with compliance risk management and operational excellence frameworks (e.g. ITIL SOC2 ISO).
Strategic thinker with excellent leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting global engineering organizations in high-growth SaaS-based companies.
Familiarity with developer productivity measurement and platform SLOs.
Background in software engineering platform operations or technical architecture.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
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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 base pay for this position is: $263840.00 - $395760.00F5 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: 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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Full-Time
