Sr. Technical Program Manager, Technology Resilience

F5 Networks

Job Location:

Seattle, WA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

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.

Position Overview

We areseekinga strategic and experienced Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead our enterprise-wide Technology Resilience program. This is a senior leadership role responsible for orchestrating a unified strategy across the three core pillars of resilience:High Availability (HA) Disaster Recovery (DR) and Data Protection (Backup).

You will be the single-threaded owner responsible for the programs success from long-term strategy to execution and governance. You will drive complex cross-functional initiatives manage a budget and ensure that our technology services are architected andoperatedto withstand any disruption.

It is a true TPM position for a leader who can think holistically about resilience influence technical and business leadership and manage a multi-faceted program that is critical to the trust of our customers and the health of our business.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Program Leadership:

Define own and drive the enterprise-wide Technology Resilience strategy and roadmap ensuring alignment with businessobjectives.

Lead large-scale programs that enhance HA DR and Backup capabilities across our on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Serve as the primary thought leader for resilience guiding engineering and operations teams toward robust and efficient solutions.

Unified Resilience Governance:

Establish and manage a holistic governance framework that includes policies standards and controls for HA DR and Backup andensurethat resilience investments are appropriately aligned with business criticality.

Resilience Assurance & Continuous Improvement:

Oversee a comprehensive assurance program that includes HA failover testing backup/restore validation DR simulations and tabletop exercises.

Analyze program data test results and industry trends toidentifygaps and drive a continuous cycle of improvement risk mitigation and maturation.

Budget and Vendor Management:

Manage the end-to-end program budget including forecasting monthly tracking and reporting on expenditures for resilience-related initiatives tools and services.

Oversee relationships and contracts with key third-party vendors forresiliencetechnology and services.

Stakeholder Management and Executive Communication:

Act as thecentral pointof communication for the Technology Resilience program.

Develop and present clear concise updates on program status risks and overall resilience posture to executive leadership and governance committees.

Build strong collaborative relationships with leaders across Application Development Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Business Units.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience:10 years of experience in technical program management IT operations or technology leadership with a proventrack recordof managing large complex cross-functional enterprise programs.

Domain Expertise:Deep understanding of the principles of Technology Resilience. Expert-level knowledge in at least one core pillar (HA/Site Reliability DR or Enterprise Backup) and strong familiarity with the others.

TPM Acumen:Mastery of program and project management methodologies (e.g. Agile Scrum PMP).Expertisein using project management tools (e.g. Jira Confluence) to manage complex roadmaps and provide clear status.

Financial Acumen:Demonstratedexperience managing program budgets developing business cases and handling vendor negotiations and relationships.

Leadership & Influence:Exceptional ability to influence without authority from individual engineers to senior executives. A confident and effective communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

Cloud Proficiency:Strong experience with resilience patterns and services within major public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

Education:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems ora relatedfield. An MBA or other advanced degree is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

PMPPgMP or other relevant program management certification.

Industry certifications in DR Business Continuity or Cloud Architecture (e.g. CBCP AWS Solutions Architect).

The base pay range per annum for this position is: $161900 - $242900

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.

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.

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:

Senior IC

Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Program Leadership:

Define own and drive the enterprise-wide Technology Resilience strategy and roadmap ensuring alignment with businessobjectives.

Lead large-scale programs that enhance HA DR and Backup capabilities across our on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Serve as the primary thought leader for resilience guiding engineering and operations teams toward robust and efficient solutions.

Unified Resilience Governance:

Establish and manage a holistic governance framework that includes policies standards and controls for HA DR and Backup andensurethat resilience investments are appropriately aligned with business criticality.

Resilience Assurance & Continuous Improvement:

Oversee a comprehensive assurance program that includes HA failover testing backup/restore validation DR simulations and tabletop exercises.

Analyze program data test results and industry trends toidentifygaps and drive a continuous cycle of improvement risk mitigation and maturation.

Budget and Vendor Management:

Manage the end-to-end program budget including forecasting monthly tracking and reporting on expenditures for resilience-related initiatives tools and services.

Oversee relationships and contracts with key third-party vendors forresiliencetechnology and services.

Stakeholder Management and Executive Communication:

Act as thecentral pointof communication for the Technology Resilience program.

Develop and present clear concise updates on program status risks and overall resilience posture to executive leadership and governance committees.

Build strong collaborative relationships with leaders across Application Development Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Business Units.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience:10 years of experience in technical program management IT operations or technology leadership with a proventrack recordof managing large complex cross-functional enterprise programs.

Domain Expertise:Deep understanding of the principles of Technology Resilience. Expert-level knowledge in at least one core pillar (HA/Site Reliability DR or Enterprise Backup) and strong familiarity with the others.

TPM Acumen:Mastery of program and project management methodologies (e.g. Agile Scrum PMP).Expertisein using project management tools (e.g. Jira Confluence) to manage complex roadmaps and provide clear status.

Financial Acumen:Demonstratedexperience managing program budgets developing business cases and handling vendor negotiations and relationships.

Leadership & Influence:Exceptional ability to influence without authority from individual engineers to senior executives. A confident and effective communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.