Site Reliability Engineer III

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. Site Reliability Engineer – UDF About F5 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.

Summary This role will be a new member of our Unified Demo Framework (UDF) platform team supporting the launch and management of the F5 Guardrails and Redteam product lines into UDF. The role will focus on designing, deploying, and supporting Kubernetes environments that support a wide variety of use cases across many F5 teams. As a technical expert, the SRE will work closely with cross-functional teams to instantiate AI features, optimize system performance, and ensure reliability in production environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, containerized architectures, and builds and runs systems with an operational excellence mindset. This individual will play a critical role in advancing the operational maturity and scalability of the UDF platform and ensure our ability to incorporate new F5 product lines and features.

Kubernetes Orchestration and Management Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters and ensure efficient container orchestration to support AI workloads. Implement and maintain Kubernetes-based deployment pipelines Optimize resource allocation within Kubernetes clusters, while reducing costs and maximizing performance. Develop and maintain high-availability and fault-tolerant Kubernetes architectures to ensure service continuity Observability and Monitoring Design and implement observability pipelines for real-time monitoring of Kubernetes clusters, including metrics collection for scaling, resource utilization, and system health. Leverage tools such as Cloudwatch, DataDog, Grafana, or similar platforms to ensure visibility into Kubernetes-managed workloads Establish logging, tracing, and alerting strategies to enable proactive identification and resolution of performance or reliability issues. Automation and Scalability Automate infrastructure management tasks to support the efficient deployment and operation of AI functionalities, including upgrades, scaling, and provisioning. Support Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies for the provisioning and configuration of environments, leveraging tools such as Terraform or Helm. Contribute to the development of CI/CD workflows tailored for automatic scaling and effective change management practices Collaboration and Process Improvement Collaborate with product teams and sales engineering to integrate F5 products into the UDF platform and ensure effective utilization by the sales organization. Support root cause analysis (RCA) processes for issues affecting the UDF platform, driving long-term corrective actions to improve system reliability. Provide technical expertise to design operational workflows and procedures that improve the agility and stability of the UDF platform.

Education : Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software