Sr Architect, Distributed Cloud

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company.
• Drive architectural reviews, design validations, and threat models to ensure operational, security, and scalability concerns are addressed early.
• Partner with management on driving product timelines.
• Lead technical due diligence, competitive assessments, and horizon scanning for new technologies and paradigms.
• Lead software development projects.
• Ensure the documenting and recording every aspect of Distributed Cloud.
• Planning, tracking and scheduling software deliverables.
• Ensure teams can identify problems within software systems and driving issues to resolution.
• Developing good working relationships with other employees and senior leadership.

Skills and Qualifications

• 12+ years in architecture leadership roles, with 5+ years in a Chief Architect or Principal Architect capacity for a global SaaS or cloud platform.
• Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available SaaS services at global scale.
• Deep technical expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security.
• Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies.
• Broad understanding of coding and programming languages.
• Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies.
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles.
• Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software.
• Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills.

Pay

The annual base pay for this position is: $268,800.00 - $403,200.00

Benefits

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