Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 161600 - 242400
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
About F5
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 docentersaround people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and theircustomersbetter. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community whereeach individualcan thrive.
Position Summary
We are looking for multiple Plarform/Cloud Engineers to build andoperatea secure scalable cloud landing zone and platform and automate governance using policy-as-code create reusable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) libraries and enable teams through CI/CD pipelines andGitOpspractices. You should bring deep hands-onexpertisein at least one major cloud (Azure or AWS preferred) withadditionalexperience in GCP OCI or IBM Cloud as a plus. We are looking for engineers with 5-10 years of experience in these areas.
Key Responsibilities
Design build andoperatecloud landing zones (multi-account/subscription org structure network identity logging security baselines).
Implementgovernance and guardrails using policy-as-code (e.g. Azure Policy AWS Organizations/SCPs OPA/Conftest) including exception handling and auditability.
Deliver an infrastructure platform as a product to the internal development community.
Develop reusableIaCmodules/libraries (Terraform primary; Bicep/ARM and CloudFormation also valued) and promote standard patterns for teams.
Build andmaintainCI/CD pipelines for infrastructure OS Images containersand platform components usingGitOpsworkflows (PR-based changes automated validation progressive delivery).
Standardize environments (dev/test/prod) with consistent controls tagging/metadata and cost management guardrails.
Embed security and compliance into build/deploy:secret handling encryption IAM least privilege vulnerability scanning and evidence generation.
Observability and SRE practices: implement monitoring/alerting and dashboards support incident response and help define/track SLIs/SLOs for platform services.
Collaborate in an agile delivery model;participatein planning refinement and execution (SAFeexperience is a bonus).
Required Qualifications
Deep hands-on experience engineering cloud infrastructure onone or more ofAzureAWS and GCP(architecture implementation).
Strongproficiencywith Infrastructure as Code (Terraform primary; Bicep/ARM and CloudFormation).
Proven experience implementing landing zones / foundational cloud platforms (identity network shared services governance).
Experience with policy-as-code and automated compliance (e.g. Azure Policy AWS Config SCPs OPA/Conftest).
CI/CDexpertiseforinfrastructure: pipeline design testing/validation approvals environment promotion drift detection.
Working knowledge of configuration management/automation in current-state enterprise environments (e.g. Ansible and Puppet).
Strong understanding of IAM network security encryption key management and secure-by-default patterns.
Comfortable with Git-based workflows (PR reviews branching strategies versioning release management).
Scripting/programming ability (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell Go) to build automation and tooling.
Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)
Strong Network Engineering background including cloud and hybrid-cloud connectivity network security policy automation and cloud native network architectures.
Experience working in hybrid environments to deliver platform automation solutionsinthe Data Center.
Experience withadditionalclouds: GCP OCI IBM Cloud.
Familiarity with security and control frameworks such as NIST CSF NIST 800-171 SOX SOC 2 and ISO 27002.
Kubernetes/platform experience (AKS/EKS/GKE) service mesh or container platform operations.
Experience with platform engineering concepts: developer portals/catalogs golden paths internal products.
Familiarity with observability stacks: native CSP toolingDatadogSplunkLogicMonitor
SAFeor other structured agile delivery framework experience (PI planning ARTs epics/features).
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: $161600.00 - $242400.00F5 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 .
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Senior IC
About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
