Engineer III, Software

Primary Responsibilities

• Evaluate and solve software failures
• Improve the existing functionality
• Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software
• Collaborate with team members and technical leads
• Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5s components and features
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Essential:

• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Excellent analytic / trouble-shooting and debugging skills
• Experience with Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
• 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. Experience with network and web technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS and such
• SRE/Devops on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecyle on kubernetes, with practical experience on debugging issues.
• On-call Experience in managing everyday OPs for production environments. Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues.
• CI/CD: Experience working with/designing functional CI/CD systems.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Prior experience in deploying workloads and managing lifecycle on any cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Nice-to-have:

• Experience programming in Linux networking and OS internals
• Agile based software development methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum
• GipOps: Experience with helm charts/customizations and gitops tools like ArgoCD/FluxCD.
• Experience in upgrading workloads for SaaS Services without downtime.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Migration is a plus

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 3 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.