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

F5 sits between the Internet and some of the largest companies on Earth. We keep their applications running fast, safe, and efficiently. Our hardware and software products are highly configurable and blazingly fast. The Drivers team at F5 is looking for anEngineer IIIwho is well versed with testing network drivers for a scalable, distributed,and carrier-grade software solution. This team owns the low-level network drivers for high performance packet processing in the BIG-IPs data-plane. BIG-IP is F5s flagship Application Delivery Controller. The data-plane pod either runs inside a virtual machine or directly in a customers native Kubernetes deployment. The network drivers developed by this team are used for a variety of paravirtualized interfaces, SR-IOV virtual functions, and F5s FPGAs.

Primary Responsibilities

-Design and implement test automations for network drivers.

-Evaluate network driver features and performance.

-Set up and maintain hardware resources used for CI/CD pipeline automation.

-Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents.

-Conduct presentations internally and externally.

-Participate in hiring and onboarding process.

-Collaborate with team members and technical leads.

-Uphold F5s Business Code of Ethics.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Must have test development experience using python/bash.

Must have experience and knowledge of networking protocols, architecture, and technologies.

Experience with ansible and/or terraform

. Experiencewith GitLab and/or similar repository solutions.

. Well-versed in containerization solutions (like Kubernetes).

. Well-versed in microservices architecture.

. Ability to manage ambiguity in work.

. Ability to present ideas verbally and in-writing with clarity and precision.

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 without experience; or equivalent work experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.

Experiencewith GitLab and/or similar repository solutions.3+ years programming experience.