Software Architect – BIGIP for Kubernetes

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Job Description :

F5 is seeking an Architect to lead the architectural vision strategy and execution for the BIGIP Kubernetes platform designed for AI and cloud-native applications. This leadership role is responsible for ensuring scalability security performance and agility across all technical domains of BIGIPs AI Kubernetes and cloud-native capabilitiesincluding but not limited to traffic management load balancing security orchestration and observability.

Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Set long-term architectural direction guiding major technology choices and innovation areas.
• Collaborate closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures align with the companys vision and future direction.
• Drive architectural reviews design validations and threat modeling to address operational security and scalability concerns early in the process.
• Partner with management to drive product timelines.
• Lead technical due diligence competitive assessments and horizon scanning for new technologies and paradigms.
• Mentor junior team members.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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 : $234400.00 - $351600.00

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

APIs,Spring,.NET,DevOps,Cloud Infrastructure,IaaS,AWS,Solution Architecture,Cloud Architecture,PaaS,Java,Azure

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 234400 - 351600