CICD Architect, Engineering Shared Services
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Position Summary

We are looking for a forward-thinking pragmatic thought leader to architect the next generation CICD pipeline to support delivery of our modern apps!

As a part of our Engineering Shared Services team, you play a key role in shaping up the future of how we bring in multiple versions of our capabilities to the market. You will work closely with the key leaders across the product engineering teams to ensure the deployment and maintenance of deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and web applications.

You have strong hands-on experience in Linux/Unix in private and public cloud environments and scripting languages like Unix Shell and Python and have built many DevOps CICD pipelines ground-up, especially, designing and implementing collaborative and scalable solutions on AWS and Azure. As a domain expert, you will lead the analysis of the current practices and design and implement best practices and emerging concepts in CICD landscape.

You are a leader in driving infrastructure as code using various configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, SaltStack, Puppet or Chef. You have in-depth knowledge and experience with Docker, SonarQube, Git, Microservices and container deployment and service orchestration with thorough experience with Blue-Green Deployment to reduce downtime and risk, provide continuous deployment and fast rollback.

You have managed sensitive private configuration data using tools like Etcd, Consul, or Vault and other tools with experience in implementing pipeline monitoring using Prometheus, Splunk, AppDynamics etc. You should have experience with CICD tooling that includes artifact generation, management using such tools as Artifactory. Feedback on services is critical in this role and you will need to have experience with visualization and logging services using tools such as Kibana, Grafana, and Elastic.

You will lead teams CICD methodologies and serve as mentor to all engineering levels. Partner with management on driving product timelines. Participate in multi-functional design projects, serving as consultant to top management in long-range company planning concerning new or projected areas of technological research/advancement. Generate and promote new theories, concepts, principles and methodologies within software and hardware manufacturing. Constantly learn new technologies. Present in both internal and external settings on development methodology and technical advancements. Project long term technical direction and influence product roadmap. Love to solve hard problems

Along with technical expertise, you will have a strong customer-focused and service-oriented mindset with empathy and passion for change & innovation.

Primary Responsibilities

* Architect the CICD strategy and serve as the primary source of technical expertise in the organization.
* Develop a strategic roadmap incorporating emerging business/industry trends into company development pipelines.
* Establish key infrastructure monitoring and alerting, version management, security to enable the delivery of key engineering products and services.
* Work with security organization and the CISO to ensure the CICD pipeline and related services are following the best security practices and compliance requirements such as ISO 27001.
* Work with other product architects to establish quality checkpoints to make sure the input is of quality and conforms to the architecture strategy.
* Establish real-time monitoring of the pipeline to actively analyze and fix any issues that might arise.
* Establish standards, patterns and standard methodologies for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
* Drive the required tools and ecosystem integrations to drive seamless publishing of builds.
* Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes, technologies and standards for CICD
* Compile, develop, and deliver architectural guardrails; influence people and ensure compliance with architectural guardrails within many technology domains that support the needs of products teams to reliably launch products and services
* Lead multi-functional design teams to develop new pipelines as well as address design issues / maintenance of existing ones
* Regularly informs top management and senior external personnel on company's technical capabilities and future direction
* Builds formal networks with key decision makers and serves as external spokesperson for the organization.
* Act as a mentor for other junior members in the team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

* You are an expert in architecting and setting up CICD pipeline enabling daily releases.
* Internally and externally recognized as a premier technical, industry or product specialist.
* Is well respected by key partners and peers across broader Product Engineering organization.
* Industry respected speaker, participating in both internal and external events.
* Meets with key customers and external partners, able to articulate roadmap and development process architecture.
* Experience leading complex product development initiatives from concept through release.
* Extensive development experience in software development with continuous integration and deployment of cloud-based modern applications.
* Creative problem solving and project management skills.
* Strong leadership skills and an ability to mentor and groom other specialists.
* Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment.
* Experienced public speaker. Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and interpersonal) with varied audiences
* Able to present product road map and technical differentiators to a wide audience.
* Classic Agile and SAFE Agile methodologies
* May require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 25% of the time spent traveling.

Qualifications

* Prior experience in designing and implementing CICD pipelines for large enterprises with 99.9999% uptime.
* Extensive experience in architecting/developing and deploying multi-cloud distributed microservices-based applications.
* Has demonstrated depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines, such as networking, security and technology domains.
* Has demonstrated experience in DevOps model leading the architecture in an agile manner - ideally lived through multiple product releases and cycles
* Experience in architecting and delivering multi-cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, vSphere, Openstack, and Kubernetes
* Experience explaining difficult concepts to decision makers to help craft technology strategy.
* Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 12 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 8 years of experience; or equivalent experience.

F5 Networks is an equal opportunity employer and we embrace diversity

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.

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