Sr Director, Engineering BIG-IP Data Plane

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.

As a leader you will build integrated partnerships across all areas of F5. You are responsible for defining the mission of your team, inspiring and motivating your team to pursue that mission, and setting strategic goals for them to achieve in that pursuit. Provide a balanced understanding of business and technical objectives and your guidance is sought out because your decisions drive the best outcomes for both. Be responsible for a set of key performance indicators important to the business, and drive outcomes for our business by setting goals against these metrics. Lead cultural change and empower leadership at all levels to create a culture that allows collaboration and innovation to thrive. In summary, this is an amazing opportunity to lead a team that drives everything that our customers and employees see and use every day.

Right now, we’re building an exciting new identity for our company as the leader in multi-cloud application services. We’re innovating like crazy, especially in the areas of application security, multi-cloud deployments, as-a-Service and managed offerings, cloud-native packaged software, and service mesh. We’re thought leaders in the area of application capital—the idea that applications, and the data they manipulate, are the most important asset of modern organizations. The future potential of applications is nearly limitless and we’re well-positioned to take F5 to the next level—and beyond.  

Primary responsibilities:

• Deliver roadmap for BIG-IP Data plane capabilities including security services
• Foster individual, team, and organization growth, while maintaining a strong engineering- driven culture
• Facilitate rapid hiring and onboarding of dynamic engineering talent
• Ownership and responsibility of key technical areas of core ADC and Cloud products and services
• Drive F5 strategy and vision
• Own and communicate site strategy to key partners, including executive staff
• Work cross-functionality with leadership from Product Management, Global Services, Manufacturing, Legal, HR
• Management duties include the supervision of exempt and/or nonexempt level staff. This includes but is not limited to, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving mentorship to staff, conducting performance improvement plans, taking disciplinary action, and interviewing talent for open positions
• Budget responsibilities include travel, approval of time off, office equipment and applications
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree, MBA is a plus
• 10+ years development management experience, including leading multiple teams
• 15+ year experience in SW development teams
• Deep understanding of project and product life cycle, software and hardware development life cycle
• Previous SW and/or Test development management experience
• Familiarity with appliance and SW based product deliveries, with emphasis on networking and security
• Experience in working with multiple geographies, specifically India
• Be a strong multi-cultural communicator
• Ability to work independently, remotely and handle ambiguity
• Proven ability to grow a team toward excellence
• Mentoring and developing direct reports
• Proven ability to partner, communicate and influence at all levels, including line staff as well as executive staff
• Understand training programs and curriculum development

Physical demands and work environment:

•  Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
•  International travel required, approximately 10-20%

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.

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