Senior DevOps Engineer

F5 • Seattle, WA

33d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees