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 of 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.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager in Engineering to lead our software engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automation, scale, and performance testing, and will be responsible for driving the development and implementation of automated testing systems.

Responsibilities :

• Lead and manage the software engineering team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products.
• Develop and implement automated testing strategies to improve efficiency and accuracy in the testing process.
• Oversee the design and execution of performance testing to ensure the scalability and reliability of software applications.
• Establish and maintain systems for running and reporting on automated tests, providing insights and recommendations for improvements.
• Implement and manage regression testing to ensure that new code changes do not negatively impact existing functionality.
• Develop and maintain quality gates for Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) pipelines to streamline the development and deployment process.
• Oversee the test and verification of SaaS applications at scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate automated testing into the development lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide team members in best practices for automation, performance testing, and CI / CD.

Requirements :

Qualifications

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 [HIDDEN TEXT].

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Skills Required

Automated Testing Tools, Performance Testing, Regression Testing