Sr SRE

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.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) apply observability and data skills to proactively measure system performance, diagnosing services/needs and quickly identify solutions. Senior-level SREs will often circulate across teams within an organization to ensure optimal system performance, evangelizing the SRE function, and providing coaching and mentorship within the engineering community. SREs are strategic fixers – they have a unique set of skills to ensure system efficacy, applying technical acumen to identify and understand both known and unknown issues. SREs are data driven and focus on toil reduction; they value varying insights and perspectives, are extremely comfortable with change, embrace a challenge, and thrive in a collaborative, coaching culture that fosters development and innovation.

SYSTEM EXPERIENCE – Application Build and Deployment Processes (git*, automation pipelines, Infrastructure as code, etc.) – Automated Application Delivery (load balancers, container orchestration, service mesh, High Availability architectures, Frontend, Backend technologies including database, etc.) – Service Operation (Define, instrument, measure, and manage service level objectives. Experience with observability tooling including logging infrastructure, time series metrics databases, tracing systems, alert definitions, etc.) – Incident management (service restoration, root cause analysis, postmortem authorship, define roles and responsibilities, etc.) – Security awareness and competencies, including security as code. – Configuration management OBSERVABILITY – Explores beyond the obvious to ensure Service Level Objectives (SLO) are met. – Understands and measures system behaviors to quickly and efficiently diagnose, identify, and address needs. – Proactively test, automate, monitor outputs, leverage signals to infer services and needs. – Data management to explore properties, patterns, and distributed tracing SOLUTIONIST – Constantly seeking ways to improve systems, making them more efficient and reducing toil. – Understands the difference between short-term strategic and long-term fixes – Simplifies decisions and judgments by recognizing what to pay attention to and what to ignore; a proficient problem solver. Tenacious and resourceful with an inherent predisposition toward action; unafraid to try something new in the name of innovation.

FORWARD THINKING – Possess an inherent bias toward innovation, always abreast of developing ideas and technologies. Thoughtfully and strategically considers future needs, opportunities, and advocates positive change. – Technological creativity and capacity The Fundamental 5 are the core competencies necessary to be successful in a function. These competencies apply to all roles within the Function, with the level of proficiency varying based upon experience and career development. While aptitude may vary, the intent is to ensure candidates coming into the function are set up for success by either having direct experience or exhibiting the passion and potential to develop these skill(s).

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION – Conveys information, vision, and strategy in an accurate and timely manner, adjusting to ensure understanding based on the audience. Actively listens; seeks to understand rather than respond. Proactively solicits and values diverse perspectives, ideas, and opinions

Responsibilities

1. SRE Lead for a project(s) from conception to implementation, defining needs, establishing strategy, and managing development.

2. Coordinate with development and platform teams to design and implement zero-downtime deployment approaches, real-time logging, alerting, and monitoring solutions, and code instrumentation, and with solution architects to design highly available solutions that meet objectives, automating solutions whenever possible.

3. Develop solutions to identify reliability risks, monitor application growth, and triage production issues.

4. Actively engage with internal engineering teams to develop tooling, framework to drive full observability, and automation of the environment.

5. Provide leadership to ensure the services and tools that provide the foundation for an intuitive and engaging developer experience to increase developer productivity, product quality, and overall system performance.

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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.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

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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.