Sr Site Reliability Engineer

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 

Primary Responsibilities 

• F5 Distributed Cloud SRE: Play the role of a hands-on SRE Engineer focused on automation and toil-reduction and participate in Ops cycles to support our product. 

• Perform on-call support function on a rotation basis, providing timely resolution of issues and ensuring operational excellence in managing and maintaining distributed networking and security products. 

• Mentor junior team members to support their professional growth and development. 

• Easy-to-Use Automation: Continue to grow the infra-automation (k8s, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Golang services, AWS, GCP, Terraform) with a focus on ease of configuration. 

• Environment Stability using Observability: Create and continue to evolve existing Observability (metrics & alerts) and participate in regular monitoring of infrastructure for stability. 

• Collaborative Engagement: Collaborate closely with application owners and SRE team members as part of roadmap execution and continuous improvement of existing systems. 

• Scale & Resilient systems: Design & deploy systems/infra which is highly available and resilient for the configured failure domains. 

• Design systems using strong security principles with security by default. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Hands-on programming experience in any one language - Python, Golang + shell scripting. 

• Hands-on Terraform expertise. 

• Strong networking fundamentals and experience dealing with different layers of the networking stack. 

• SRE/Devops on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecyle on kubernetes, with practical experience on debugging issues. 

• Experience in upgrading workloads for SaaS Services without downtime. 

• Oncall Experience in managing everyday OPs for production environments. Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues. 

• GipOps: Experience with helm charts/kustomizations and gitops tools like ArgoCD/FluxCD. 

• CI/CD: Experience working with/designing function