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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. \nEverything 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.\nPrincipal Software Development Engineer - Virtualization & Lab Infrastructure\nLocation: Hyderabad, India\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our lab infrastructure and virtualization platforms. This role will partner closely with engineering teams and lab users to understand requirements and deliver scalable, reliable, and highly automated infrastructure solutions that support development, testing, CI/CD, and product validation environments.\nThe successful candidate will provide technical leadership across virtualization, private cloud, automation, and hybrid cloud technologies, while helping drive infrastructure modernization through automation and operational excellence.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for lab virtualization platforms.\nPartner with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand requirements and design scalable infrastructure solutions.\nLead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of virtualization and private cloud environments.\nDrive infrastructure automation, self-service capabilities, and operational efficiency.\nDefine architecture standards, best practices, and long-term technology strategy.\nEvaluate and adopt technologies that improve reliability, scalability, performance, and user experience.\nServe as the technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and virtualization challenges.\nMentor engineers and provide technical leadership across platform and infrastructure initiatives.\nTechnical Expertise\nVirtualization & Private Cloud\nExpert-level experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, Proxmox, XCP-ng, and Microsoft Hyper-V.\nExperience designing and operating large-scale virtualized and private cloud environments.\nStrong understanding of clustering, high availability, workload management, resource optimization, and virtual networking.\nProven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex virtualization platform issues.\nAutomation & Platform Engineering\nStrong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform automation.\nHands-on experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.\nExperience building automated provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD integration and self-service infrastructure platforms.\nInfrastructure Knowledge\nUnderstanding of enterprise storage technologies, including NAS, SAN, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and Fibre Channel (FC).\nFoundational networking knowledge required to design and troubleshoot virtualization platforms, including VLANs, routing, switching, and virtual networking concepts.\nStrong understanding of Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments spanning on-premises and public cloud platforms.\nExperience with AI-assisted operations, intelligent automation, and AI-driven runbooks is a plus.\nQualifications\n14+ years of experience in virtualization, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud, or related disciplines.\nProven experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale infrastructure platforms.\nStrong architecture, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across virtualization, compute, storage, networking, and cloud technologies.\nExperience working directly with engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver infrastructure solutions.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\nExperience supporting engineering labs, private cloud environments, or product development organizations is highly desirable.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, containers, and cloud-native technologies.\nFamiliarity with observability, monitoring, capacity planning, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.\nRelevant certifications in virtualization, cloud, networking, or storage technologies are a plus.\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. 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