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.

Position Summary

Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity, and teamwork?  F5 Inc. is hiring for its Centre of Excellence office in Hyderabad, India.  Come join us and help build and grow a world class site

Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity, and teamwork? Want the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art cloud technologies, containers, and orchestration systems, and microservices?

As a contributing member of the team, you will be integrated into cross functional working project teams in our Product Development organization. This position will provide you with an opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on work experience working directly on Red Hat’s Linux Centos Distributions.

As part of F5’s software engineering professionals, you will be tasked with our most challenging problems, diagnosing, and troubleshooting complex systems issues, and building innovative high-quality solutions that are secure, scalable, and reliable. You will undertake challenging assignments that allow you to broaden your knowledge.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and Support software/firmware solutions for platform components of F5 products.

• Design, implement and Support solutions in Linux kernel code, device drivers, data path and L2 networking.

• Work cross functionally integrating, testing, and debugging issues with existing system wide software.

• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes, and standards

• Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving, and mitigating risk and communicating to stakeholders

• Provides technical solutions to detail certain aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.

• Assisting and driving customer solutions

• Document software designs and unit tests

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Essential-Technical

• Strong knowledge of C/C++,

• Understanding of Linux/UNIX Operating Systems

• Networking exposure a plus (e.g. tcp, http, ssl).

• Experience with Container based architecture and deployments (Docker, Ansible). Orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes

• Experience using scripting languages Python,TCL Perl, configuration management tools (Git, perforce)

• Familiarity with encryption keys and authentication methods

Essential Behavioral

• Ability to operate in an agile and dynamic environment

• Excellent teamwork and people skill

• Effective communication skills

• Self-motivated and highly ambitious

• Creative problem-solving skills, critical thinking and excellent troubleshooting/debugging skills

• Organized, with an ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of workflow tools (e.g. Atlassian)

• Knowledge of source versioning tools like GitHub, perforce etc.

Qualifications

• Requires at least 3 years related experience with a Bachelor of Engineering in ECE/Computers or 2 years with ME/MTech in ECE/Computers.

• Excellent organizational agility and interpersonal skills throughout the organization.

• Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with international teams.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].