F5 Sr Architect 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

560022456

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as primary source of technical expertise to one or more project teams.
• Helps detail all aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.
• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes, technologies and standards
• Leads, reviews and may direct the architecture of F5's key hardware and software components.
• Prepare/analyze/architectproduct for future scalability
• Devises and develops new solutions that may involve cross-module dependencies.
• Lead cross functional design teams to develop new product as well as address design issues / maintenance of existing ones
• Regularly informs top management and senior external personnel on company’s technical capabilities and future direction
• Bring industry best practices and help navigate changing technologies and upcoming trends to create a strategic company product roadmap.
• Integrates research and emerging business/industry trends into company product platforms.
• F5 technology spokesperson at internal and external forums
• Creates formal networks with key decision makers and serves as external spokesperson for the organization.
• Act as a mentor for other junior members in the team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Industry respected speaker, participating in both internal and external events.
• Deep understanding of L7 protocols (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSockets, gRPC) and application security standards (OWASP Top 10, NIST, MITRE ATT&CK).
• Strong technical understanding of TLS, certificate management, identity and access protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), and secure session management.
• Familiarity with zero trust architectures, policy-as-code, multi-tenant designs, and runtime enforcement in container-based platforms
• Expert Knowledge and extensive experience with network and web technologies.
• Experience leading complex product development initiatives from concept through release.
• Extensive development experience in embedded operating systems.
• Exceptional problem solving and project management skills.
• Strong leadership skills and an ability to mentor and groom other engineers.
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience

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: $246,400.00 - $369,600.00