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.
Position Summary
F5 is seeking a highly experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to modernize how F5 software is built, tested, secured, and delivered, with technical leadership across CI/CD, source control, build systems, developer productivity, and software supply-chain security .
A key focus is migrating large, mature codebases from Perforce to GitLab and modernizing the supporting ecosystem through centralized CI/CD runners, Artifactory-backed artifact management, stronger SDLC controls, and reproducible builds.
Primary Responsibilities
Architecture and Strategy
Define the CI/CD architecture and strategy, serving as the organization’s primary technical expert.
Develop a strategic roadmap that incorporates emerging business and industry trends into development pipelines.
Establish and maintain CI/CD standards, patterns, design methodologies, technologies, and architectural guardrails that help product teams reliably launch products and services.
Partner with product architects to define quality checkpoints and ensure inputs meet quality standards and align with the architecture strategy.
Platform Reliability, Security, and Delivery
Establish infrastructure monitoring, alerting, version management, and security controls to support engineering products and services.
Implement real-time pipeline monitoring to identify, analyze, and resolve issues.
Partner with the security organization and CISO to ensure CI/CD pipelines and related services follow security best practices and meet compliance requirements, including ISO 27001.
Drive tooling and ecosystem integrations to enable seamless build publishing.
Technical Leadership and Collaboration
Promote adoption of architectural guardrails across the technology domains that support product delivery.
Regularly communicate the company’s technical capabilities and future direction to senior management and senior external stakeholders.
Mentor junior team members.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
CI/CD, Source Control, and Build Systems
Expertise in architecting and implementing CI/CD pipelines that enable daily releases.
Experience migrating very large or historically complex Perforce depots to Git .
Experience with Bazel or Buck2 build systems and GitLab autoscaling runners and large-scale runner fleets.
Experience with Artifactory , container registries, and dependency-management infrastructure.
Infrastructure, Security, and Domain Expertise
Experience with Kubernetes , Docker , AWS , Azure , or GCP .
Experience with HashiCorp Vault and enterprise secrets management.
Experience modernizing build and release systems for networking, infrastructure, security, embedded, or systems software.
Internal and external recognition as a leading technical, industry, or product specialist.
Qualifications
Architecture and Delivery Experience
Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines with 99.9999% uptime.
Extensive experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed, microservices-based applications across multiple clouds.
Experience architecting and delivering multi-cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, vSphere, OpenStack, and Kubernetes.
Demonstrated depth and breadth across related disciplines, including networking, security, and other technology domains.
Experience leading architecture in an agile DevOps model, ideally across multiple product releases and development cycles.
Ability to explain complex concepts to decision-makers…