- Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
- Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
- Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
- Ensures milestones are being met; monitor, track and make visible
- Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting.
- May meet with customers to communicate and review product features
- May communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.
- Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.
- Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality.
- Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products.
- Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams
- Good working experience in Cloud based product development.
- Knowledge of OSI Layer-1 to 7 including LAN switches, routers, general TCP/IP and associated protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, SSL)
- Good knowledge of microservices architecture and API design and development best practices
- Working knowledge of development and deployment across multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare and OpenStack
- Knowledge or experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment
- Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so
- Track record of mentoring engineering staff
- Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality, on time and within budget.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Experience with QA metrics and reporting
- Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
- Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
- Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
- Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.
- Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.
Qualifications
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree with overall 12+ years of experience.
- 9+ years software development experience
- 3+ years leading or managing a development team
