POSITION SUMMARY: We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Networks. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms. EXPERIENCE Principal Engineer PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Lead/Mentor the Infra team completely for all the global support Deliverables
- Drive the New project programs
- Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.
- Participate in meeting with stakeholders and make the deliverables in streamlined process.
- Participate in hiring and technical evaluations for team growth and improvements.
- Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.
- Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.
- Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.
- Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.
- Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.
- Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies
- Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services




- Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.
- Migration and consolidations of infrastructure
- Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.
- Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions
- Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.
- Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.
- Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.
- Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.
- On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones
- Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

- Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.
- Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations
- IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service
- Storage Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies
- Hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)
- DevOps Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms
- Automation Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment
- Datacenter Operations Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect
- Networking Skills Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)
- Experience in SAN/NAS storage (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)
- Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.




- A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies
- SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies
- Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified qualified experience .
- A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions
- Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.
- A Working experience in Object Block File storage Technologies
- Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.
- Dell/HP/Cisco UCS servers administration is an additional advantage.
- Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.
- A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.
- A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..
- A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.
- A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP Vpn tunnel etc.
- A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)
- A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration
- A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories
- Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.
- Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.
- Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services
- SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
- Vendor support OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.
- Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.
- Working experience in tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.
- Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles
- Working experience with ServiceNow
- Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.

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