Distinguished (DMTS), Infrastructure Architect

F5 Inc

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Remote (F5 Tower, US) Posted 84 days ago $246,400–$369,600 / year
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TL;DR

As an Infrastructure Architect at F5, you will design and document the foundational infrastructure patterns that underpin their SaaS business, ensuring 99.99% platform availability through comprehensive artifacts that cover everything from hardware selection to automation scripts. You’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders like product management and engineering, as well as external vendors, to maintain high-level relationships and provide strategic guidance on industry trends. Your day-to-day involves mentoring engineering teams, delivering designs that incorporate cost considerations and KPIs, and advocating for infrastructure needs within the company and broader industry. This role requires 12+ years of experience in consumer webscale or multi-national carrier substrate/infrastructure engineering, with a focus on security integration and automation. You must excel in both technical and executive communication, ensuring that your designs are not only robust but also widely understood and implemented across F5’s operations.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Docker Prometheus Grafana Ansible GitOps OpenStack VMware Security best practices DevSecOps Scalability methodologies Disaster recovery planning High availability design Regulatory compliance Connectivity strategies Supply chain management

What you'll do

  • Design and document baseline build patterns for F5's SaaS infrastructure.
  • Ensure platform availability with full-scope, tested artifacts achieving 99.99% uptime.
  • Mentor engineering teams and address escalations regarding solution designs.
  • Incorporate COGS impact and financial inflection points in design decisions.
  • Advocate for infrastructure engineering within F5 and the broader industry.
  • Deliver designs that include clear KPIs and measurement strategies.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of progressive consumer webscale or multi-national carrier infrastructure engineering experience.
  • Proven ability to design and implement infrastructures for large-scale, critical deployments in the financial or carrier sectors.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of messaging status and plans effectively both internally and externally.
  • Expertise in ensuring architecture is not an ivory tower, actively preventing isolated decision-making processes.
  • Comprehensive understanding of security engineering and compliance, with a focus on prioritizing customer safety.

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $193k
This role $308k
$109k most similar roles pay here $398k

This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $150,837–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $308k versus about $193k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

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About F5 Inc

F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking, application availability and performance, and network security, access, and authorization.

F5 Inc currently has 16 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $176,800–$259,800 across 16 roles with salary data.

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