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Position Summary

This position is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of key product components. Designs, codes, tests and delivers new/modified functionality. Perform as an individual contributor and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams. Requires little direct management to complete the majority of development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality services, lead design discussions, execute development against design for development teams to utilize in a self-service model
• Will support and maintain an GPT internal AI Application
• Coordinate with product and platform teams on regular maintenance, improve availability, scalability, and performance of the CI/CD environment.
• Collaborate with product teams and work cross-functionally with F5 IT department and vendors to implement the services and automation required to support application use cases.
• Actively engage with internal teams to develop tooling, framework to drive full observability and automation of the environment.
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base.
• Ensure that post-production operational processes / deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase.
• Define and create development procedures, processes, and scripts to drive a standard software development lifecycle.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies with product teams to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines for new technology introduction.
• Provide technical leadership on establishing standards and guidelines.
• Facilitate collaboration between development and operations teams throughout the application lifecycle.
• Partner with Corporate Information Security to ensure all security policies and audit inquiries are addressed.
• Coordinate and align all other technology teams to ensure operational delivery processes are governed and monitored to expedite

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must: Direct experience with AI applications support and deployment like Open AI.
• Must: Awareness of Deployment / Integrations to various GPT models like GPT-4.x, O3, O4 models etc.
• 3 to 5 years of experience developing and implementing CI/CD automation, performance tuning, and scaling applications.
• 3 to 5 years of experience with open-source technologies and cloud services preferably Azure.
• Experience with containerized architectures – development and deployment.
• Must: Hands-on development experience with one or more general purpose programming / Scripting languages including but not limited to: Python, Shell, JavaScript, or Go.
• Must: Infrastructure deployment experience using technologies such as Terraform, and Ansible.
• Excellent working knowledge of system environments – operating systems, networking, applications, platforms, and databases.
• Experience with branching strategies, test-driven development, release management, Agile methodologies, Unix, Linux,
• Familiarity with common database technologies such as MS SQL Service, PostgreSQL,
• Knowledge of development methodologies (Agile, Kanban, Scrum) across various technologies.
• Experience with continuous integration methodologies and tools such as GitLab.
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work, both personally and at a team level.
• Great communication skills as this will be facing internal/external users.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in Linux OS environment
• Familiarity Linux software installation processes, procedures and RPMs
• SW development experience using Kubernetes and Openshift
• Familiarity with Agile Process work in iterative fashion
• Experience using configuration management tools; GitLab preferred to write and review code
• Knowledge of CI/CD and project management tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Jira, Bugzilla, etc) is preferred
• C/C++ programming skills
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python, Go, Perl, etc)
• TCP/IP Protocol knowledge

F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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 accommodations@f5.com.