Hybrid Senior Manager, SRE – Networking

at F5

• Job title: Senior Manager, SRE – Networking
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $196,800 - $295,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Firewalls, Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Ray, Switching, Terraform, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager leading SRE, Virtualization, Networking, and AI Infrastructure teams at F5. Overseeing mission-critical infrastructure and driving operational excellence across hybrid compute environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-team ownership: SRE, Networking, Virtualization, AI/GPU Infrastructure
• Oversee hybrid data centers spanning routing, switching, firewalls, SDN/overlay, Kubernetes CNI, and service‑mesh/L4‑L7 traffic to drive network reliability, performance, security, and automation
• Reliability strategy: SLO/SLI programs, incident management, automation, scaling Kubernetes platform operations across multiple distros
• Provide executive oversight for OpenStack compute storage, and networking services
• Ensure scalable VM lifecycle management, resource optimization, and operational maturity
• Own end‑to‑end reliability and performance of AI compute platforms, including model training/inference pipelines, GPU scheduling and autoscaling, and high‑performance compute environments
• Partner with ML, Data, and Product to build next-gen AI compute platforms
• Drive adoption of automation-first operations, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code
• Own the multi‑year platform roadmap across hybrid compute, Kubernetes, virtualization, AI, and networking while driving cross‑org alignment and leading large‑scale modernization across CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure
• Drive organizational strategy, prioritization, staffing plans, hiring, and budgeting
• Build a high-performance, inclusive culture focused on ownership, excellence, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 10+ years infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering experience
• 5+ years managing engineering teams (including managers or tech leads)
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, virtualization, and cloud/networking
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional alignment
• Proven record of accomplishment improving platform uptime, performance, and reliability
• Proven leadership in: Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, Titan-k8s, Robin, Vanilla K8s)
• Virtualization (Proxmox, VMware, XCP-ng, KVM)
• OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)
• Data center/cloud networking and distributed systems
• Strong executive communication skills and cross-org influencing ability
• Demonstrated experience improving operational maturity and reliability for large-scale systems
• Strong background in automation, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure architecture
• Experience running large-scale multi-cluster Kubernetes environments (preferred)
• Experience with service mesh, ingress controllers, and network policy frameworks (preferred)
• Familiarity with GPU scheduling, Ray, Kubeflow, MLflow, or Triton Inference Server (preferred)
• Experience with storage backends (Ceph, vSAN, ZFS, CSI-based solutions) (preferred)
• Experience driving multi-year infrastructure transformation programs (preferred)
• Expertise in GitOps and IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) (preferred)

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Bonuses
• Restricted stock units
• Comprehensive benefits package