Sr Engineering Manager

Position Summary

This position is for a Sr engineering manager in F5 BIG-IP product team. This role willempower engineers, recruit, hire and mentortheir directs while also acting as a coach/guide, provide feedback to help their group of engineers grow, and expand their professional development. The position will need to outline expectations, supportyourdirects in your team, offer support and assistance where necessary for them to succeed in their job. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Act as an advisor and coach to directs on their work and team dynamics

• Performance manage directs to enable engineers to operate at their highest potential

• Sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, developing performance improvement plans, and taking corrective action as needed.

• Be knowledgeable and a point of contact for product vision, goals, and process.

• Align engineers to the corporate and oraganization’s strategy, focus on customer use cases, experience and quality 

• Recommend changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).

• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.

• Model F5 Behaviors and Agile principles

• Collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment 

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 

• Proven track record and experience leading big engineering projects with 10+ member team 

• Engineering and application delivery expertise

• Demonstrated ability to guide and coachengineers

• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Demonstrated excellence in written communications

• Experience managing both UI and backendprojects.

• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, routing protocols, IPsec VPNs, SSL, Firewalls, Nat, Proxies, HTTP/HTTPS proxies

• Knowledge of Kubernetes  

• Duties are performed in F5 Seattle office with F5 return to office policy

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree 

• 8+ years software development experience

• 3+ years leading or managing a development team

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.