Dir, Engineering

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.

You will lead a group or multiple groups in the planning, organizing, development, implementing, testing, and maintaining of products through the software product lifecycle. This position reports to the VP of Engineering and coordinates with other Product Development and Product Management for the Product qualification and deliveries. You will provide technical direction for engineering teams to accomplish business goals. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Set technical and strategic direction for engineering Test teams and Managers

• Researches, analyses, and monitors the new technologies in the Testing industry

• Act as a mentor and train management staff in people management.

• Develops and modifies our Testing processes and methods; focus on continuous improvement.

• Directs a group of managers involved in Automation, Regression and Performance Test 

• Facilitates communication upward and across project teams.

• Develops and manages operating budgets.

• Develop and implement strategies that fulfil global market criteria and F5 corporate direction.

• Represent department as needed: including project teams, task forces, audits, business or technical meetings with internal or external groups.

• Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work. 

• Participate in continuous self-education in Engineering field (i.e., methodologies, tools) to keep abreast of industry direction and standards

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Strong hands-on expertise in Networking, Kubernetes and Container technologies and Security Domain, with a focus on Testing.

• Expertise in software engineering and testing methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and managers

• Experience in leading teams through the software Product Lifecycle including System and Performance testing for Feature and Maintenance Releases

• Experience in interfacing with external facing teams and handling customer issues.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to work with all levels of management and across all areas.

• Ability to inspire others

• Strong analytical skills.

• Strong leadership/mentoring abilities.

• Experience developing and managing department budget(s).

• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems

• Willingness and ability to adapt to new processes, ideas, and concepts.

• Self-directed/self-motivated.

Qualifications

• BE/ME in Computer Science or equivalent: with 15+ years of experience in software product development and engineering

• Experience in testing and delivering Kubernetes based products and services

• 7+ years of people and Technical management

• F5 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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

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. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].