Sr Mgr, Engineering

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

This position manages the activities of systems development, applications development, and quality assurance functions for system enhancements and new products. Key responsibilities are to develop and manage people, provide technical leadership, lead project planning, facilitate communication, and offer product vision. Coordinates project timelines with Project and Development Managers, determines and obtains resources, assigns work, monitors progress and results, and provides technical leadership. This Sr. Manager is a champion for product quality within the department and is accountable for an assessment of product readiness and commitments on product delivery schedules.  This position will typically manage through subordinate managers and senior level professionals, and will regularly interact with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning multiple functional areas and/or divisions.

Why This Role is Unique: 

Our SaaS is hybrid – running across public cloud and a global network of 50+ PoPs, delivering terabits of capacity. Our infrastructure spans cloud-native services and physical networking gear (routers, switches, firewalls), creating a uniquely challenging and exciting landscape. Managing the Data plane quality team for SDC will require very strong networking and data-plane knowledge. The role provides ownership and accountability to maintain quality for this complex networking platform.

Primary Responsibilities

• Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.

• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)

• Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.

• Ensures milestones are being met; monitor, track and make visible

• Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting

• May meet with customers to communicate and review product features.

• Communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.

• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.

• Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality.

• Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products.

• Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies that affect immediate operations and may have company-wide effect.

• May manage employees in two or more locations.

• May manage activity of two or more groups.

• Manages senior level technical professionals.

• 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.

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong networking fundamentals, having worked with diverse networking control and data planes.

• Hands-on knowledge of routing (advanced), switching (basic) and security (Internediate/Advanced).

• Hands-on knowledge in the areas of L7 processing.

• Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams

• Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality, on time and within budget.

• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.

• Experience with QA metrics and reporting

• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree

• 15+ years software development/QA experience

• 6+ years of management experience

F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.