Engineer III, Software

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. 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.

Everything 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.

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Networks. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you 'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud - AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, OpenShift, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.

• Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.
  
• Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.
  
• Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.
  
• Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time.
  
• Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.
  
• Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects and best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.
  
• Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.
  
• Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies.
  
• Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services.
  
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.
  
• Migration and consolidations of infrastructure.
  
• Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.
  
• Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.
  
• Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.
  
• Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.
  
• Ability to take ownership of activities and new initiatives.
  
• Infra Global Support from India towards Engineering teams.
  
• Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.
  

• Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Virtualization, Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.
  
• Hypervisors - OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, and AHV
  
• Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps Operations
  
• IaaS- Infrastructure-as-a-service, Metal-as-a-service
  
• Storage - Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies
  
• DevOps - Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms
  
• Automation - Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment
  
• Tools - Jenkins, Splunk, Kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git
  

• A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies
  
• SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies.
  
• A solid understanding of high availability systems, system/service/network redundancy
  
• Proven problem resolution related to virtualization infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.
  
• Experience in Backup Technologies.
  
• Dell and HP server administration is an additional advantage.
  
• Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.
  
• Strong experience and exposure towards open-source platforms.
  
• Experience with system and network monitoring tools.
  
• Experience with BareMetal services and OS administration.
  
• Experience working with software defined networks (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc.)
  
• Experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL
  
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent.
  
• Experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories.
  
• Experience with creating Operational Dashboards.
  
• Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services.
  
• Experience with service, system, and network availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
  
• Vendor support - OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.
  
• Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.
  
• Knowledge of scale-out and scale-in architecture.
  
• Working experience in ITSM / Process Management tools like ServiceNow and Jira.
  
• Knowledge Sharing, Transition Experience, and Self-Learning Behaviors.