Platform Security Architect

F5 Networks•San Jose, CA

12d

About The Position

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. F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a world class, mission critical and highly reliable platform serving a global customer base. Our customers depend on us to keep their business highly available and secure around the planet. We are rapidly expanding our platform in many dimensions – global footprint, infrastructure, performance, low latency etc., We are looking for a hands-on, driven, results oriented Architect in our Platform Security organization. This organization is responsible for the build and life cycle management of Distributed Cloud platform with Secure first mindset. We build, engineer and evolve systems, tools and practices to ensure our Distributed Cloud is always protected from code to traffic.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience of 1 2+ years in architecture roles, with 5+ years in a Principal Architect capacity for a global SaaS or cloud platform in S ecurity.
Experience building and operating Products serving in Federal regulatory customers – FedRamp , IL5, HIPAA etc.,
Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available SaaS services at global scale.
Deep technical expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security.
Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies .
Broad understanding of coding and programming languages .
Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies .
Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles .
Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software .
Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Design and implement a blueprint with Security First mindset for Distributed Cloud.
Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company.
Drive architectural reviews, design validations, and threat models to ensure operational, security, and scalability concerns are addressed early.
Work closely with Engineers and Managers to drive the engineering and deployment and operationalization of Distributed Cloud platform.
Ensure the documenting and recording every aspect of Distributed Cloud.
Planning, tracking and scheduling software deliverables.
Ensure teams can identify problems within software systems and driv e issues to resolution.
Developing good working relationships with other employees and senior leadership.
Engineer systems and tools to secure communication between On Prem and Public Clouds.
Evolve Distributed Cloud to meet federally regulated standards – FedRamp , IL5, HIPAA.
Build and Operate systems for data protection, identifying and mitigating threats from supply chains, external attacks.