Sourcing Manager, Network Infrastructure

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.

Strategic Sourcing Manager Network Infrastructure

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 THE TEAM

F5s Infrastructure Capacity Engineering team is responsible for the planning sourcing and delivery of network compute security and data center capacity across F5s global SaaS footprint. This includes an active data center expansion spanning multiple metro deployments worldwide. The team sits at the intersection of engineering procurement finance and legal; translating capacity forecasts into real infrastructure on the ground.

ABOUT THE ROLE

F5 is seeking a strategic sourcing leader to own end-to-end procurement execution for network hardware supporting our global PoP and data center expansion. You will partner closely with the Capacity Engineering planning function to ensure hardware availability build and manage vendor relationships and negotiate commercial agreements that keep pace with an aggressive build schedule.

Youll own supplier engagement contract structuring and vendor accountability for the network hardware that powers our SaaS infrastructure at scale.

This is a cross-functional role by directly with Supply Chain Network Engineering Infrastructure Operations Finance Product and Procurement as the connective layer that turns capacity signals into sourcing decisions and supply constraints into acquisition strategies.

This role reports into the Infrastructure Capacity Engineering organization.

Requirements:

• Be Kind
• Own end-to-end sourcing strategy and execution for network hardware including switches routers optics cabling and rack hardware DWDM across F5s global PoP and data center footprint.
• Partner with Capacity Engineering planning to translate forecasted demand into sourcing plans lead times and delivery commitments.
• Initiate negotiate and manage contracts and MSAs with OEMs ODMs and global suppliers including standard redline and clause negotiation with Legal and Procurement.
• Identify supply chain risk and secure optionality across the hardware portfolio to protect against single points of failure and lead-time exposure.
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering legal finance and procurement to ensure sourcing strategies align with capacity and budget plans.
• Develop competitive commercial strategies that ensure material readiness and cost efficiency across the PoP expansion roadmap.
• Provide technical and commercial input during vendor evaluation and selection to ensure alignment with data center design and operational standards.
• Track and report sourcing progress risks and key milestones to Capacity Engineering leadership with clarity and precision.
• Maintain and evolve sourcing documentation including supplier scorecards contract trackers and delivery timelines.

What Youll Bring

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experiencein strategic sourcing procurement or contract management experience with specialization in data center network infrastructure or a closely related discipline with a track record of owning sourcing and planning functions.
• Demonstrated success negotiating and managing vendor contracts for large-scale data center or network environments including OEMs and global suppliers.
• Working technical fluency in network hardware (switches routers DWDM/optical transport cabling NICs) sufficient to evaluate vendor proposals and partner credibly with engineering.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on cost optimization risk mitigation and on-time delivery.
• Experience structuring multi-vendor or multi-site deals and driving vendor accountability against SLAs.
• Clear executive-ready communication: You can write a crisp capacity briefing present it to a VP defend your assumptions and translate complex infrastructure analysis into the language of business risk and investment.
• Hyperscale or SaaS background: Youve done this at a company where infrastructure runs at scale.

• Network architecture depth: You understand network hardware at a level that lets you reason about generations form factors power envelopes configurations and what those choices mean for capacity math.
• Broad infrastructure literacy: You dont need to be a network or security engineer but you need to understand how network bandwidth security appliance capacity and physical data center constraints interact with compute capacity planning and you need to be able to work fluently across those domains to produce a single integrated capacity model.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills: Proficiency in tools and methods for building validating and communicating capacity models whether thats Python SQL advanced Excel or purpose-built capacity planning platforms. The tool matters less than the rigor. The result however must be a dashboard queryable agentic AI or other real-time artifact not a PowerPoint deck.

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 .