Senior DevOps Engineer
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. Senior DevOps Engineer (Full-Time Employee) Location: Seattle, WA / Spokane, WA / San Jose, CA F5 Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (FTE) to join our innovative team in Seattle, Spokane, or San Jose. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced DevOps solutions to accelerate software delivery, improve system reliability, and drive a culture of automation, security, and collaboration at scale.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code: (Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS CloudFormation)
- Advanced scripting abilities using Python and Bash/Shell.
- Extensive experience with containers (Docker, Podman) and Kubernetes orchestration.
- Strong expertise across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Solid knowledge of monitoring and logging stacks: Prometheus/Grafana, OTEL.
- Proven track record with configuration management tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack.
- Skilled in Git version control and workflows (GitHub, GitLab).
- Advanced infrastructure security skills with hands-on expertise in tools such as Hashicorp Vault, Semgrep, and integrated CI/CD pipeline security.
- Experience with artifact management (Artifactory, Docker Registry).
- Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills in cloud, container, and distributed system environments.
- Excellent written/verbal communication and documentation capabilities.
- Demonstrated success working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities such as mentoring, technical guidance, and best practices advocacy.
Nice To Haves
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting production systems in DevOps or cloud engineering roles (minimum 5 years with direct DevOps focus).
- Proven expertise in IaC, automation, and cloud security at enterprise scale.
- Significant experience with high-availability architectures, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and cost optimization strategies.
- Exposure to multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Prior leadership, mentoring, or team lead experience strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead design, development, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using industry-leading tools.
- Architect and implement robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for scalable, secure on-prem and cloud environments.
- Drive automation of provisioning, deployment, testing, and monitoring leveraging scripting languages (Python, Bash).
- Develop and manage containerized applications and orchestrate workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Utilize cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) to optimize infrastructure performance, resilience, and cost.
- Implement and support continuous monitoring, logging, and alerting utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL).
- Apply configuration management solutions (Ansible or other - Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack).
- Champion DevSecOps practices by integrating security into all automated pipelines and infrastructure.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex deployment, infrastructure, and system issues.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineering, QA, product management, security, and IT operations throughout agile, cross-disciplinary teams.
- Establish and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation including procedures, runbooks, technical solutions to support team knowledge and operational excellence.
- Mentor, coach, and provide technical leadership to DevOps engineers and advocate for best practices across engineering teams.
- Drive process improvements, evaluate emerging technologies, and contribute to strategic DevOps roadmaps.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
