Systems Reliability Engineer III-Azure DevOps

Job Description:

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we’re committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

Position Summary:

The systems reliability engineer (SRE) will apply aspects of software development skills to infrastructure and operations work. Since the main goal of this role is to create scalable and highly reliable systems, the SRE will spend up to half of their time doing operations-related activities such as supporting issues, writing documentation and system management. The SRE should spend the rest of their time delivering development tasks such as new features, scaling, and automation.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership on large/complex systems and platform opportunities
• Build tooling to support the automation, management, and reliability of applicable systems
• Build and support release pipelines for applicable systems
• Work as an integrated part of a development/delivery team to include SRE practices as part of solution design
• Manage the system lifecycle from design and implementation, to turn-down and decommissioning
• Write documentation for peers and business partners supporting applicable systems
• Work with business partners to define SLOs and SLIs and build robust monitoring solutions supporting agreed upon metrics
• Resolve P1 and P2 tickets using a proven systematic approach that focuses on returning safely returning to full system capability and creating plans to fix root cause issues
• Lead communications efforts regarding both system issues/activities as well as blameless post-mortems
• Provide mentorship to junior team members
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong ability to optimally multitask and prioritize work, juggling daily support responsibilities with multiple product/project driven activities
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Work independently and with a delivery team toward releasing features on agreed upon timelines
• Strong ability to support SQL database technologies including SQL Server, Azure SQL PaaS, and Azure SQL Managed Instances
• Provide comprehensive administration of core platforms including backups, recovery, monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades.
• Scripting and automation experience with Infrastructure as Code languages such as Azure Resource Manager, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, or Terraform
• Experience writing YAML code to build and manage Azure DevOps pipelines
• Proficiency with Azure resource management and operations
• Familiarity with Windows Server administration and operations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field and 5+ years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 4 years in an enterprise-level system engineering or reliability engineering role
• Strong base knowledge of operating systems, networking basics, and security best-practices
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery and Devops principles
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting language (PowerShell, C#, TypeScript, or Java preferred)
• Technical certifications a plus

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

We offer work/life integration programs like Freedom to Flex, dynamic employee inclusion groups, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition assistance for professional development, a comprehensive mentoring program, rewards/recognition, and so much more. At F5, we truly do help each other thrive and it shows: F5 has been named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” by Fortune magazine for the past two years.

And this commitment to living our culture doesn’t just exist within our offices; it extends into our communities through Global Good initiatives such as employee matching, volunteer opportunities, and the F5 Foundation. Our employees are passionate about making a difference in the world.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become part of a company that’s on the leading edge of transformation. And because we know that a more diverse F5 is a more powerful F5, we’re looking for smart, hard working, determined individuals to join us. If you make thoughtful decisions quickly, obsess over your customers’ needs, take ownership of your work (the mistakes as well as the successes), and embrace different perspectives by putting the human first, then we want to talk to you.

Send your updated CV in English with the position name on subject: l.higareda@f5.com