Principal DevOps Engineer

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.

Principal DevOps Engineer (Full - Time Employee)

Location : Seattle WA / Spokane WA / San Jose CA

F5 Inc. is seeking a n accomplished P rincipal Dev O ps Engineer (FTE) to join our innovative team in Seattle Spokane or San Jose. As a Principal DevOps Engineer you will serve as a technical visionary and strategic leader ; shaping architecting and advancing our DevOps ecosystem. You will drive the technical direction for our automation reliability security and cloud infrastructure initiatives and mentor engineers at all career stages.

Responsibilities

Set strategic direction and vision for DevOps architecture automation and pipeline tooling.

Own the architecture and implementation of scalable robust Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) for hybrid cloud and on - prem environments.

Design and optimize complex CI / CD frameworks using leading industry tools to support secure seamless delivery at scale.

Develop and enforce best practices fo r automated provisioning deployment testing monitoring and security across environments and projects.

Spearhead advanced containerization orchestration and workload automation initiatives using Docker Kubernetes and other container technologies.

Lead cloud platform strategy (AWS Azure GCP) driving cloud adoption architecture resilience performance and cost optimization.

I mplement and support continuous monitoring logging and alerting utilizing tools such as Prometheus Grafana and OpenTelemetry (OTEL) .

Guide advanced configuration management practices (Ansible Chef Puppet SaltStack ) and champion automation at every layer.

Provide technical leadership for DevSecOps embedding security into all DevOps practices CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure.

Lead complex incident resolution root cause analysis and system reliability engineering (SRE) efforts for highly critical systems.

Advise and collaborate with leadership architects and principal engineers across product software infrastructure security and IT.

Drive documentation excellence ensuring architecture processes runbooks technical and operational guides are thorough and current.

Mentor coach and uplift DevOps engineers at every level establishing high standards and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Influence and develop DevOps roadmaps evaluate emerging technologies and promote organizational transformation.

R equired Skills & Qualifications

Deep mastery of CI / CD platforms (GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins) and proven record designing complex enterprise - grade pipelines

Extensive experience and authority in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu AWS CloudFormation) with strong architectural acumen.

Advanced expertise in scripting (Python Bash / Shell) and proven automation of provisioning operations and deployments at scale.

Demonstrated leadership in containerization (Docker Podman ) Kubernetes orchestration and cloud - native patterns.

Significant experience architecting on major public cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP)

Deep practical expertise with monitoring & observability stacks : Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry .

Broad and deep knowledge in configuration management : Ansible Puppet Chef SaltStack .

Mastery of Git - based version control branching strategies and collaborative workflows (GitHub GitLab).

Advanced infrastructure security skills with hands - on expertise in tools such as Hashicorp Vault Semgrep and integrated CI / CD pipeline security.

Experience with artifact management at scale ( Artifactory Docker Registry).

Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills in cloud container and distributed system environments.

Outstanding communication technical writing and documentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.

Demonstrated excellence operating in fast - paced Agile / Scrum environments.

Proven technical leadership mentorship and influence across engineering and DevOps organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience .

10 years of experience designing leading and operating large - scale production systems in DevOps cloud or SRE roles.

Demonstrated impact leading IaC automation and security strategy at enterprise scale.

Extensive experience with high - availability disaster recovery performance tuning and cloud cost management.

Strong expertise in Linux systems administration networking concepts (TCP / IP DNS load balancing firewalls) and advanced troubleshooting of infrastructure and distributed systems.

History of principal / lead engineering or technical management roles including mentorship and cross - team collaboration.

Recognized as a thought leader or subject matter expert in DevOps / cloud / infrastructure engineering fields. C ontributions (open source conferences communities) are a significant plus.

F5 is an equal opportunity employer.

We value innovation collaboration and a relentless focus on automation reliability and security. If you are driven to lead a DevOps transformation and make a lasting global impact then apply today !

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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.

The annual base pay for this position is : $186400.00 - $279600.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link : F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 .

Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Design,Academics,AutoCAD 3D,Cafe,Fabrication,Java

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 186400 - 279600