Were looking for an experienced Sr. Manager to lead Firewall teams responsible for delivering securing application traffic across diverse environments including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment. Youll own roadmap execution, elevate engineering excellence, and partner crossfunctionally to deliver capabilities that delight customers and meet stringent security and compliance expectations.

Primary Responsibilities

- Support, mentor, and coach as well as provide professional development for your team. Collaborate across teams and deliver high quality software to meet customer needs.
- Advise on the architecture, code patterns, testing and continuous integration details.
- Take ownership of customer issues with timely fixes and provide proper RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the wider group.
- Collaborate with leaders in engineering and product management on roadmap, strategy, coordinating dependencies, and establishing clear requirements to effectively meet delivery and quality commitments.
- Perform continuous team member evaluations to enable frequent feedback.
- Identify hiring needs and be the hiring manager for recruiting engineers.
- Motivate and foster a collaborative environment within your team, actively engaging with senior management and executives. Adopt a managerial approach that emphasizes support and empowerment for your teams,



while also championing the cultivation of a positive and cohesive team culture.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Experience and passion for taking a leading role in building complex software systems, delivered successfully to customers.
- Valuable understanding of Firewalls, NAT, and Intrusion Prevention/Detection System (IPS/IDS) technologies.
- Experience in working with of L2- L4 network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/S, DNS etc.) and system programming.
- Hands-on experience in Kubernetes cloud technologies and deployments.
- Experience in load-balancing technology
- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and practices for full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, build process, CI/CD, testing, and operations.
- Working experience in Agile software development methodology.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing people.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Qualifications
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelors degree; or 6 years and a masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of prior experience in managing team of software engineers.

📌 Sr Mgr, Software Development Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 f5
📍 Hyderabad