Senior Manager, Network Engineering

Core Accountabilities

• Technical Leadership: Develop and enforce best practices across data center, on-premise, and edge network infrastructures with a core focus on security and automation.
• Edge Networking and Firewalls: Deliver scalable edge networking solutions and manage firewall configurations to ensure secure and efficient data traffic across environments.
• F5 on F5: Understand and use F5 technologies where appropriate within the corporate ecosystem. Provide feedback to product teams and help improve the F5 product suite.
• Team Management and Servant Leadership: Build, develop, and retain a high-performing team; set expectations, coaching, performance management, and career paths.
• Zero-Trust Network Architecture: Implement network segmentation and ZTNA solutions using industry-leading technologies, ensuring robust user and device authentication across the network ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Network Optimization and Security Strategy: Standardize designs and operating patterns for secure connectivity, network redundancy, traffic optimization, and edge delivery. Enforce a “secure-by-default” approach to network configurations, aligning with modern security frameworks and compliance standards.
• Automation and Observability: Champion the automation of network configurations and security protocols using modern practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Establish reliable observability mechanisms to monitor and respond to network behavior and anomalies.

Required Qualifications

• +10 years experience as a network engineer and 5+ years experience in a leadership role.
• Proven experience in leading technical teams, managing strategic initiatives, and developing talent in network engineering fields.
• Proficient with agile practices with a proven track record of implementing and maintaining agile practices in a network engineering environment.
• Expertise in foundational network technologies, including Palo Alto firewalls, SASE/ZTNA solutions such as Netskope and Zscaler, and edge networking.
• Hands-on experience with network automation frameworks and tools and proficiency with IaC practices.
• Strong skills in stakeholder engagement and backlog ownership, with the ability to balance long-term goals and immediate delivery needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with F5 products, especially BIG-IP product suite and Secure Distributed Cloud implementations.
• A deep understanding of frameworks such as NIST CSF, SOC 2, and ISO 27002 would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with observability stacks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, or OpenTelemetry for network insights.
• Experience leading structured agile delivery initiatives in scaled environments.
• Prior exposure to edge and data center networking at scale.

Pay Range

The annual base pay for this position is: $199,200.00 - $298,800.00

Benefits

More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.