Sr Site Reliability Engineer

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Business/Job Title: Senior SRE

Position Summary

Software engineering is a core discipline at F5 for many roles. As a software engineer specializing in site

reliability, you will bring a software engineering and automated solution mindset to your work.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability

of critical systems and SaaS platforms. Systems under the care of a Senior SRE must operate effectively

and reliably through scalable builds and deployments, frequent releases, and complex architectures that

encompass modern technologies. You will work closely with technical and non-technical teams throughout

the organization to facilitate the design and implementation of scalable solutions, drive automation

initiatives, and monitor and maintain the performance of critical systems.

What You’ll Do

• Apply modern engineering principles and practices to operational functions and employ this

methodology throughout the full system lifecycle; from initial concept and architecture through

deployment, daily operation, and overall optimization, and apply these practices to refining existing

systems.

• Support and maintain technology systems to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security.

• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as automation and evolve systems by

fostering changes that improve velocity.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, including systems failures, connectivity problems, and

performance bottlenecks.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and robust system architecture to improve services.

• Investigate various open source and proprietary technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system.

• Apply observability and data skills to proactively measure system performance, diagnosing services/needs and quickly identify solutions.

• Participate in service operation and RCA activities and assist with defining SLOs and SLIs for business stakeholders.

• Implement and enforce security best practices to protect our systems, data, and infrastructure against unauthorized access, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities.

• Create and maintain comprehensive knowledge bases for system documentation, including standard operating procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting guides, to support end-users’

ability to use the systems effectively.

• Participate in on-call rotation.

• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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. This role may require occasional after-hours work to manage system upgrades or respond to critical incidents.

What You’ll Bring

• A security-first approach to managing resources in cloud platforms, SaaS platforms, containerization, and orchestration.

• Proficiency in Agile delivery, DevSecOps principles and associated tools and technologies.

• Knowledge in technology systems including infrastructure or SaaS platforms.

• Experience with compliance and regulatory guidelines, incident response and reporting, access control and vulnerability management.

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as an integral member of an agile team.

• Experience with observability tooling including logging infrastructure, continuous monitoring, tracing systems, alert definitions, etc.

• Proficient communication, planning, problem solving, trouble shooting, identifying performance

bottlenecks and organization skills.

• Flexibility to adapt to changing project requirements and timelines.

Qualifications

• BS/BA or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years’ experience as SRE or relevant experience in a Windows Administrator role

• Hands-on experience with Windows Server Administration and troubleshooting in Linux, Windows as well as patching and health monitoring

• Azure Experience (Storage, Compute, Secuity, Encryption & IAM Services)

• Scripting experience (Bash, Shell and/or Python)

• Experience with Virtualization, such as VMWare is desirable

• Experience with planning, deploying, troubleshooting proprietary services on Linux and Windows such as Cleo, Thales & Aspera is desirable

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.

• Detail-oriented with a focus on operational efficiency and security.

• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as an integral member of an agile team

• Ability to manage multiple priorities.

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace

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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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

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 [email protected].