Senior Network Engineer

About the role

F5 is seeking a Senior Network Engineer with deep technical expertise and strong operational judgment. The role is primarily operations-focused, covering day-to-day network reliability, performance and incident response, while also including engineering and build work such as routing architecture evolution, automation pipelines and major data centre and cloud initiatives. It works closely with Architecture, Product, Security, Compliance and Operations teams, and the candidate is expected to mentor engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate network solutions for global data centres, cloud platforms, FedRAMP environments and product connectivity
• Optimize global IP backbone routing, including multi-region propagation, redundancy and traffic engineering
• Run highly available L3 topologies with BGP, OSPF and robust routing policies (ECMP, route reflectors, communities, AS-path, MED/local-pref)
• Implement secure segmentation and boundary controls for FedRAMP Moderate/High environments
• Deploy hybrid and cloud-native routing on AWS, Azure and GCP (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, VPN, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN)
• Build automated provisioning, configuration, compliance and validation pipelines in Python, Ansible/AWX and Git-driven CI/CD
• Monitor, troubleshoot and lead incident response; execute changes safely with documented procedures and rollbacks
• Remediate vulnerabilities and maintain compliance with Security and Compliance teams
• Develop automation enforcing least privilege, segmentation, encryption-in-transit and logging
• Plan capacity, manage vendor procurement and lifecycle, and document runbooks, diagrams and FedRAMP audit documentation

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field (Master's preferred)
• 10+ years in network engineering in large-scale, multi-region, global routing environments
• Experience with FedRAMP Moderate and/or High environments strongly preferred
• Incident leadership, mentoring, and strong communication across multiple teams

Required skills

• Hands-on BGP and OSPF, JunOS (MX, QFX, SRX preferred); EOS, NX-OS, IOS-XE a plus
• Hybrid cloud networking on AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• Python, Ansible/AWX, Git, configuration templating and automated testing pipelines
• Network security controls, segmentation, encryption, logging, firewalls, VPNs, DDoS mitigation, IDS/IPS and NIST 800-53