Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer – III

at F5

• Job title: Site Reliability Engineer – III
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $137,600 - $206,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Azure, Chef, Cloud, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Linux, Postgres, Puppet, Python, SQL, Terraform, Unix, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer focused on developing and improving Kubernetes configurations for F5's infrastructure. Collaborating with product teams and ensuring operational delivery processes are efficient and reliable.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality services, lead design discussions, execute development against design for development teams to utilize in a self-service model.
• Coordinate with product and platform teams on regular maintenance, improve availability, scalability, and performance of the CI/CD environment.
• Collaborate with product teams and work cross-functionally with F5 IT department and vendors to implement the services and automation required to support application use cases.
• Actively engage with internal teams to develop tooling, framework to drive full observability and automation of the environment.
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base.
• Ensure that post-production operational processes / deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase.
• Define and create development procedures, processes, and scripts to drive a standard software development lifecycle.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies with product teams to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines for new technology introduction.
• Provide technical leadership on establishing standards and guidelines.
• Facilitate collaboration between development and operations teams throughout the application lifecycle.
• Partner with Corporate Information Security to ensure all security policies and audit inquiries are addressed.
• Coordinate and align all other technology teams to ensure operational delivery processes are governed and monitored to expedite issue remediation.

Requirements

• 2 to 3 years of experience developing and implementing CI/CD automation, performance tuning, and scaling applications.
• Direct experience with automation to deploy, manage and maintain complex Kubernetes installations.
• 1 to 2 years of experience with open-source technologies and cloud services preferably Azure.
• Experience with microservice architecture and development.
• Hands-on development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, JavaScript, or Go.
• Infrastructure deployment experience using technologies such as TerraForm, and Ansible.
• Excellent working knowledge of system environments – operating systems, networking, applications, platforms, and databases.
• Experience with branching strategies, test-driven development, release management, Agile methodologies, Unix, Linux.
• Familiarity with common database technologies such as MS SQL Service, PostGreSQL.
• Experience with configuration management system (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge of development methodologies (Agile, Kanban, Scrum) across various technologies.
• Experience with continuous integration methodologies and tools such as GitLab.
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work, both personally and at a team level.
• Great communication skills as this will be facing internal/external users.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Bonus
• Restricted stock units
• Health insurance
• Additional benefits available at https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits