Senior DevOps Tech Lead

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 make apps faster, smarter, and safer.

Join our DevOps team within the WAAP security development group in an exciting, fast-paced environment shaping the future of F5.

Be part of building and operating security products that protect applications and APIs across SaaS and on-prem environments, within a company renowned for its excellent culture.

Position Summary

As a Senior DevOps – Tech Lead, you will own the design, scalability, and evolution of our DevOps and platform infrastructure.

You will work closely with software engineers, SREs, architects, and external SaaS DevOps teams to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and aligned across security platforms, AI/data pipelines, and hybrid environments (SaaS & on-prem).

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines and platform infrastructure across multiple environments as part of F5 SaaS and on-prem solutions.
• Ensure DevOps infrastructure and production environments are highly available, reliable, scalable, and performant.
• Drive and lead cross-team DevOps initiatives involving internal teams and external SaaS partners.
• Define and promote best practices around system reliability, deployment processes, and operational standards.
• Collaborate with software engineers, SREs, architects, and external teams to deliver robust production solutions across security and data-driven systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Ability to drive alignment and influence technical decisions across teams, including external partners.
• Deep understanding of production environments, reliability, and scalability challenges.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, multi-environment (SaaS and on-prem) systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on building robust and maintainable systems.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles.
• Proven experience leading technical initiatives and driving architecture or system-level decisions.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals across multiple layers and protocols.
• Proven experience with Linux environments and Kubernetes, including workload deployment and lifecycle management.
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in at least one language (Python, Golang).
• Proven track record of owning production systems and CI/CD pipelines in large-scale distributed environments.

Preferred

• Experience building or supporting AI/ML or data pipelines (e.g., Databricks or similar platforms).
• Experience operating complex, large-scale production environments.
• Proven track record of leading initiatives in large-scale environments.
• Familiarity with F5 products, especially:
  • F5 Distributed Cloud (SaaS)
  • BIG-IP
  • NGINX

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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.

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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 accommodations@f5.com.