Manager Engineering

Primary Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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:

• Excellent analytic / trouble-shooting and debugging skills
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
• Programming efficiency
• 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.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Prior experience in deploying workloads and managing lifecycle on any cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams
• Good working experience in Cloud based product development.
• 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.
• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
• 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.

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 with Disaster Recovery and Migration is a plus

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 14 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 12 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 10 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.

Environment

• Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.
• Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where you'll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.