F5 Networks

Principal DevOps Engineer

F5 Networks
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4 days ago
Bengaluru, India or Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define enterprise CI/CD architecture, strategy, standards, patterns, and architectural guardrails.
  • Create roadmaps for development pipelines and modernize build, release, and developer productivity systems.
  • Migrate large Perforce codebases to GitLab and operate centralized CI/CD runners and large-scale runner fleets.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, version management, security controls, and real-time pipeline issue resolution.
  • Drive artifact publishing, dependency-management, container registry, and ecosystem integrations.
  • Partner with product architects and the security organization to enforce quality checkpoints, compliance controls, and ISO 27001-aligned practices.
  • Design and deliver distributed, microservices-based, multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, vSphere, OpenStack, and Kubernetes.
  • Communicate technical capabilities and strategy to senior internal and external stakeholders and mentor junior team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and at least 8 years of related experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Extensive experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed, microservices-based applications across multiple clouds.
  • Experience designing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines with 99.9999% uptime.
  • Experience migrating very large or historically complex Perforce depots to Git.
  • Experience with Bazel or Buck2, GitLab autoscaling runners, large-scale runner fleets, Artifactory, container registries, and dependency-management infrastructure.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus HashiCorp Vault and enterprise secrets management.
  • Experience modernizing build and release systems for networking, infrastructure, security, embedded, or systems software.
  • Demonstrated depth across networking, security, and related technology domains, with experience leading architecture in an agile DevOps model.
  • Internal and external recognition as a leading technical, industry, or product specialist and the ability to explain complex concepts to decision-makers.
F5 Networks

About F5 Networks

5,001-10,000 employees

F5, Inc. builds application delivery and security products for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning on‑premises, cloud, and edge environments. It sells software, hardware appliances, and SaaS subscriptions for load balancing, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, and traffic management, with support services. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the public company (NASDAQ: FFIV) expanded its portfolio through acquisitions including NGINX and Shape Security.

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