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Position Summary

At F5, we make apps faster, smarter, and safer…from anywhere. Come work within the BIG-IP team in an exciting, fast-paced environment charting the course for F5’s current and future. You will get to build and maintain world class systems.

In this position you will be responsible for leading engineers in an Agile organization focused on DevOps/Automation aspects of the product, involving end-to-end CI/CD Pipeline strategy, harnesses for the Integration Pipeline and Product validation, build reporting workflow for integration and quality efforts, and cater the overall system needs. You will be working on some of the newest technologies in Cloud Services, Kubernetes, microservices architecture, CI/CD, and many more. You are an advocate every single day for improving the DevOps/Automation needs of F5 BIG-IP products and services.

Key responsibilities are to develop and manage people, provide technical leadership, lead project planning, facilitate communication, and offer product vision. Coordinates project timelines with Project and Development Managers, determines and obtains resources, performance management and provides technical leadership. This Manager is a champion for product quality within the department and is accountable for an assessment of product readiness and commitments on product delivery schedules.

Primary Responsibilities

• Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.

• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).

• Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.

• Ensures plans are being met; monitor, track and make visible

• Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting.

• May meet with customers to communicate and review product features

• May communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.

• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.

• Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality.

• Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams

• Deep understanding about development and maintenance of DevOps Automation tools

• Proficient in software life cycle like Build/Release/Deploy and specialized in cloud automation through open-source DevOps tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, Chef.

• Proven ability to deliver products with the highest quality, on time and within budget.

• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.

• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree

• Minimum 7+ years of handling services, development or automation for a large-scale distributed environment.

• Experience working in a micro-services environment such as Kubernetes, Dockers and Containers

• 1-3 years of leading or managing a Development or DevOps team