Principal DevOps 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.

Principal DevOps Engineer (Full-Time Employee) 

Location: Seattle, WA / Spokane, WA / San Jose, CA 
 

F5 Inc. is seeking an accomplished Principal DevOps Engineer (FTE) to join our innovative team in Seattle, Spokane, or San Jose. As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will serve as a technical visionary and strategic leader; shaping, architecting, and advancing our DevOps ecosystem. You will drive the technical direction for our automation, reliability, security, and cloud infrastructure initiatives, and mentor engineers at all career stages. 

Responsibilities 

• Set strategic direction and vision for DevOps architecture, automation, and pipeline tooling. 

• Own the architecture and implementation of scalable, robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for hybrid, cloud, and on-prem environments. 

• Design and optimize complex CI/CD frameworks using leading industry tools to support secure, seamless delivery at scale. 

• Develop and enforce best practices for automated provisioning, deployment, testing, monitoring, and security across environments and projects. 

• Spearhead advanced containerization, orchestration, and workload automation initiatives using Docker, Kubernetes, and other container technologies. 

• Lead cloud platform strategy (AWS, Azure, GCP), driving cloud adoption, architecture, resilience, performance, and cost optimization. 

• Implement and support continuous monitoring, logging, and alerting utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL). 

• Guide advanced configuration management practices (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack) and champion automation at every layer. 

• Provide technical leadership for DevSecOps, embedding security into all DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure. 

• Lead complex incident resolution, root cause analysis, and system reliability engineering (SRE) efforts for highly critical systems. 

• Advise and collaborate with leadership, architects, and principal engineers across product, software, infrastructure, security, and IT. 

• Drive documentation excellence, ensuring architecture,