Sr Architect

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

F5 is seeking a Senior Architect for BIG-IP to lead technical strategy and architecture across its entire BIG-IP products. This role drives the evolution of F5s security services across BIG-IP software hardware and cloud-native platforms ensuring they are integrated scalable and secure-by-design. As a senior technical leader you will unify architecture direction modernize legacy systems and represent F5s security vision in both internal strategy and external engagements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as primary source of technical expertise to one or more 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 F5s key hardware and software components.
• Prepare/analyze/architect product for future scalability
• Devises and develops new solutions that may involve cross-module dependencies.
• Lead cross 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 companys technical capabilities and future direction
• Bring industry best 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

• Industry respected speaker participating in both internal and external events.
• Deep understanding of L7 protocols (HTTP/2 HTTP/3 WebSockets gRPC) and application security standards (OWASP Top 10 NIST MITRE ATT&CK).
• Strong technical understanding of TLS certificate management identity and access protocols (OAuth2 OIDC SAML) and secure session management.
• Familiarity with zero trust architectures policy-as-code multi-tenant designs and runtime enforcement in container-based platforms
• Expert Knowledge and extensive experience with network and web technologies.
• Experience leading complex product development initiatives from concept through release.
• Extensive development experience in embedded operating systems.
• 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.
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 12 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience

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.

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: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 .