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And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.\nPosition Summary\nF5 is seeking a highly experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to modernize how F5 software is built, tested, secured, and delivered, with technical leadership across CI/CD, source control, build systems, developer productivity, and software supply-chain security.\nA key focus is migrating large, mature codebases from Perforce to GitLab and modernizing the supporting ecosystem through centralized CI/CD runners, Artifactory-backed artifact management, stronger SDLC controls, and reproducible builds.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nArchitecture and Strategy\nDefine the CI/CD architecture and strategy, serving as the organization’s primary technical expert.\nDevelop a strategic roadmap that incorporates emerging business and industry trends into development pipelines.\nEstablish and maintain CI/CD standards, patterns, design methodologies, technologies, and architectural guardrails that help product teams reliably launch products and services.\nPartner with product architects to define quality checkpoints and ensure inputs meet quality standards and align with the architecture strategy.\nPlatform Reliability, Security, and Delivery\nEstablish infrastructure monitoring, alerting, version management, and security controls to support engineering products and services.\nImplement real-time pipeline monitoring to identify, analyze, and resolve issues.\nPartner with the security organization and CISO to ensure CI/CD pipelines and related services follow security best practices and meet compliance requirements, including ISO 27001.\nDrive tooling and ecosystem integrations to enable seamless build publishing.\nTechnical Leadership and Collaboration\nPromote adoption of architectural guardrails across the technology domains that support product delivery.\nRegularly communicate the company’s technical capabilities and future direction to senior management and senior external stakeholders.\nMentor junior team members.\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\nCI/CD, Source Control, and Build Systems\nExpertise in architecting and implementing CI/CD pipelines that enable daily releases.\nExperience migrating very large or historically complex Perforce depots to Git.\nExperience with Bazel or Buck2 build systems and GitLab autoscaling runners and large-scale runner fleets.\nExperience with Artifactory, container registries, and dependency-management infrastructure.\nInfrastructure, Security, and Domain Expertise\nExperience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nExperience with HashiCorp Vault and enterprise secrets management.\nExperience modernizing build and release systems for networking, infrastructure, security, embedded, or systems software.\nInternal and external recognition as a leading technical, industry, or product specialist.\nQualifications\nArchitecture and Delivery Experience\nExperience designing and implementing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines with 99.9999% uptime.\nExtensive experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed, microservices-based applications across multiple clouds.\nExperience architecting and delivering multi-cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, vSphere, OpenStack, and Kubernetes.\nDemonstrated depth and breadth across related disciplines, including networking, security, and other technology domains.\nExperience leading architecture in an agile DevOps model, ideally across multiple product releases and development cycles.\nAbility to explain complex concepts to decision-makers and help shape technology strategy.\nEducation and Experience\nOne of the following combinations, or equivalent experience, is required:\nBachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of related experience.\nMaster’s degree and at least 8 years of related experience.\nThe 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.\nPlease note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com ).\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nIt 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. 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