Site Reliability Engineer III

F5 is a company striving to enhance the digital world by empowering organizations to create, secure, and run applications. The Site Reliability Engineer III role focuses on ensuring reliable operations for infrastructure and application solutions through automation, particularly in managing Kubernetes configurations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality services, lead design discussions, execute development against design for development teams to utilize in a self-service model
• Coordinate with product and platform teams on regular maintenance, improve availability, scalability, and performance of the CI/CD environment
• Collaborate with product teams and work cross-functionally with F5 IT department and vendors to implement the services and automation required to support application use cases
• Actively engage with internal teams to develop tooling, framework to drive full observability and automation of the environment
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base
• Ensure that post-production operational processes / deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase
• Define and create development procedures, processes, and scripts to drive a standard software development lifecycle
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies with product teams to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines for new technology introduction
• Provide technical leadership on establishing standards and guidelines
• Facilitate collaboration between development and operations teams throughout the application lifecycle
• Partner with Corporate Information Security to ensure all security policies and audit inquiries are addressed
• Coordinate and align all other technology teams to ensure operational delivery processes are governed and monitored to expedite issue remediation

Requirements:

• 2 to 3 years of experience developing and implementing CI/CD automation, performance tuning, and scaling applications
• Direct experience with automation to deploy, manage and maintain complex Kubernetes installations
• 1 to 2 years of experience with open-source technologies and cloud services preferably Azure
• Experience with microservice architecture and development
• Hands-on development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, JavaScript, or Go
• Infrastructure deployment experience using technologies such as TerraForm, and Ansible
• Excellent working knowledge of system environments – operating systems, networking, applications, platforms, and databases
• Experience with branching strategies, test-driven development, release management, Agile methodologies, Unix, Linux
• Familiarity with common database technologies such as MS SQL Service, PostGreSQL
• Experience with configuration management system (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge of development methodologies (Agile, Kanban, Scrum) across various technologies
• Experience with continuous integration methodologies and tools such as GitLab
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work, both personally and at a team level
• Great communication skills as this will be facing internal/external users
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
• 1+ year direct deployment, optimization and management of Kubernetes clusters
• 5+ years of experience in technical support and troubleshooting of multiple systems including: cloud native applications, interface engines, and complex distributed systems
• 1+ year of experience developing automation for Cloud applications, preferably Azure
• Comfortable mentoring team members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus and expertise