Systems Quality Architect at F5 Networks, Inc in Liberty Lake, Washington

Job Description:

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

Systems Quality Architect

Overview

F5 is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. 49 of Fortune 50 companies rely on F5. The company's hardware, software, and virtual solutions help organizations address the steadfast growth of voice, data, and video traffic to better support mobile workers and applications-in the data center, the network, and the cloud. F5's extensible architecture provides application optimization, protection for applications and the network, and enhanced application reliability.

F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and software-defined networking deployments to successfully deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 offers robust, scalable solutions that include both software and hardware.

The world's largest businesses, service providers, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5's intelligent services framework to deliver and secure their applications and services while ensuring people stay connected!

Job Profile

The position of Systems Quality Architect works closely with architectural and development teams to ensure systems test architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the product lines and company. Management of the project test strategies and its workflows. Serves as mentor to all engineering levels. Partners with management on driving product timelines. Participates on multi-functional design projects, serving as consultant to top management in long-range company test planning. Work on new or projected areas of technological research/advancement. Presents in both internal and external settings on platform test strategies and technical advancements. Projects long term technical direction.

Primary Responsibilities

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


• Responsible for strategic vision of platform test methodologies from the systems prototype stage to production and customer deployments. Serves as technical lead to detail all aspects of hardware and software test strategies, test specifications, and test plans to ensure all items in the design specification have been met.


• Leads, reviews, and directs the key architectural components of F5's hardware, software, and general product architecture.


• Performs analysis to define design requirements for modification to existing tools, utilities, system structures, environments and determines project scope and estimating activities


• Project Management responsibilities: Serves as primary source of technical expertise to a project team and is a mentor for junior staff members.


• Sets the direction and assists dev managers on the workflow of other engineers within the scope of assigned projects.


• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes and standards


• Participation on multi-functional test teams to develop new test plans as well as address test issues / maintenance of existing ones


• Interacts with top management and senior external personnel, serving as spokesperson on company’s technical capabilities and future direction


• Support upper management as needed

Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience in the development of computer software in areas relevant to F5 product line


• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.

Skills Requirements

• The position Internally and externally recognized as an industry-wide expert in the technology field


• Expert knowledge and extensive experience with BIG-IP


• Expert knowledge and extensive experience with hardware/platform testing, software testing, CI/CD pipeline methodologies, secure software development practices and vulnerability management


• Expert knowledge and extensive experience with network and web technologies (IP, TCP, HTTP, SSL)


• Strong development experience on Unix/Linux based systems


• Experience leading complex product development test initiatives from concept through release


• Outstanding problem solving/project management skills


• Strong leadership skills, and an ability to mentor and groom other engineers


• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills


• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment


• Able to speak and inform in public cross team meetings


• Recognized industry expert within the field. Job focus is on future product enhancement. Increased interaction with executive level. Able to articulate product road map and technical differentiators to a wide audience.



• Ability to technically influence and lead strategic direction

F5 is an equal opportunity employer and we embrace diversity

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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 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.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable 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

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