Sr. Technical Program Manager

F5•San Jose, CA

1d•Hybrid

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. Role Summary The Senior Technical Program Manager – Infrastructure owns the end-to-end lifecycle of global Points of Presence (PoPs), public cloud substrates for a mission-critical SaaS platform. This role is accountable for planning, execution, operational readiness, and decommissioning of PoPs, public cloud substrates across regions, while ensuring availability, security, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance. You will serve as the single-threaded owner for cross-functional infrastructure programs spanning network engineering, SRE, cloud platform, security, compliance, finance, procurement, and operations. The role requires deep technical fluency, strong execution rigor, and the ability to operate in high availability (99.99%+), regulated SaaS environments.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Infrastructure Program Management, or Engineering Operations.
Proven experience managing large-scale infrastructure programs (data centers, PoPs, edge, network-heavy platforms).
Strong technical understanding of:
Networking (BGP, peering, load balancing)
Compute, storage, and platform infrastructure
High-availability and disaster recovery architectures
Experience operating in high-availability SaaS environments (99.99%+).
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional, multi-region programs with high ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

Experience with global PoP expansion and decommissioning at scale.
Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks impacting infrastructure.
Background working closely with SRE, Network Engineering, and Security teams.
Strong financial acumen related to infrastructure cost modeling.
Experience in cloud + colo hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional, complex infrastructure programs across global data centers, network backbone, and edge locations.
Own end-to-end delivery of data center, PoP, public cloud substrates infrastructure programs, including capacity planning, network readiness, and production rollout.
Drive program execution across build, operate, and lifecycle optimization phases.
Coordinate engineering, operations, procurement, real estate, security, and compliance teams.
Manage interdependencies across hardware, network, software, and site operations.
Develop and maintain program plans, schedules, and risk mitigation strategies.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Identify and mitigate risks related to availability, security, compliance, and cost.
Provide executive-level reporting on program health, milestones, and dependencies

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