Architect at F5 Networks, Inc in San Jose, California

Job Description:

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Position Summary:

The F5 Modular App Delivery group seeks an Architect to join our team of forwarding thinking leaders to help internal product owners to determine the most effective design for various F5 product and service offerings. You will be support the VP and directors, and will be responsible for researching new technologies to ascertain their relevance to F5 with the understanding the implications for various architectural choices, and communicating recommendations that include both the technical as well as business and economic dimensions of large scale distributed system design. 

You will need to be equally comfortable and effective engaging internal audiences as well as external audiences as a strategic listener and advisor. F5 is seeking a coach/teacher who is hands on and collaborative. An empathetic, approachable expert with thoughtful, convicted positions who can connect with a variety of personality types and maintain strategic perspective will fit well into our team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify and research new and emerging technologies, companies and open source projects relevant to F5’s vision of Every Application, Anywhere.


• Evaluate targeted technologies for business, economic and technical applicability to multi-cloud architectures that F5 may adopt.


• Develop strong, clear opinions about desirable market opportunity for F5 and architectural design patterns to employ.


• Consult F5 partners across business and technical functions in architectural choices for future product and services offerings.


• Interact with a range of external audiences to listen/learn as well as to evangelize/influence design patterns, increase F5 thought leadership and credibility, and elicit adoption of F5 offers.


• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes, technologies and standards.


• Bring industry best practices and help navigate changing technologies and upcoming trends to build a strategic company product roadmap.


• Works closely with architectural and development teams to ensure hardware, software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the product lines and company.


• Partners with management on driving product timelines Participates on cross-functional design projects, serving as consultant to top management in long-range company planning concerning new or projected areas of technological research/advancement.


• Generates and promotes new theories, concepts, principles and methodologies within a specialty area.


• Performs other related duties as assigned.


• Travel: Minimal, but occasional trips to headquarters in Seattle may be required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Experience developing and operating a SaaS and/or Public Cloud service, such as AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.


• Expertise in various networking and security protocols.


• Understanding of the differences between designing network infrastructure and applications for the legacy enterprise datacenter versus the modern hybrid cloud/public cloud.


• Knowledge in performance characterization and tuning.


• Strong background working in Agile environments and with Agile methodologies.


• Highly strategic and analytical thinking.


• Economically focused.


• Ability to understand and educate others on the economic pros and cons of various technical design options.


• Ability to identify advantages and disadvantages of any programming model, framework, language when applied to a specific end user scenario, business problem or technical design.


• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and simply.


• Natural inclination to explore, prototype, and self-teach.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor; or 12 years and a Masters; or a PhD with 8 year experience; or equivalent experience.


• At least 10 years of software engineering experience.


• At least 5 years as an Architect for distributed application, network or infrastructure design.


• Experience designing and operating a SaaS or Public Cloud service.

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 Yello/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. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.