Principal Platform SRE: Global Infra & Automation

F5 Networks, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Principal SRE to design, deploy, and operate a large-scale infrastructure spanning 30+ PoPs across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. You will own physical provisioning, Proxmox clusters, container workloads, and automation in a hybrid cloud/on-prem environment.

You will participate in 24x7 on-call, drive incident resolution, and contribute to security hardening and audit readiness in a PCI-DSS compliant setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or infra engineering role in production.
• Strong Linux systems administration (RHEL/CentOS).
• Proficiency with Ansible for large-scale CM/CI integration.
• Hands-on hypervisor experience (Proxmox VE preferred).
• Production on-premise Kubernetes experience.
• AWS/Azure experience including IAM, VPC, DNS.
• Networking fundamentals incl. VLANs, routing, BGP, DNS.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate a large multi-datacenter platform.
• Own provisioning from bare metal to app layer, incl. Proxmox clusters.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automation across regions.
• Manage secrets with Vault and PKI integration.
• Maintain CMDB/IPAM accuracy in NetBox.

Skills

7+ years SRE/DevOps infra

Linux admin

Ansible

Proxmox VE

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

CI/CD (GitLab)

Vault/Secret mgmt

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Proxmox VE

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab CI

AWS

Azure

Ansible

BIND9

Unbound

Job description

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Principal SRE to design, deploy, and operate a large-scale infrastructure spanning 30+ PoPs across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. You will own physical provisioning, Proxmox clusters, container workloads, and automation in a hybrid cloud/on-prem environment.

You will participate in 24x7 on-call, drive incident resolution, and contribute to security hardening and audit readiness in a PCI-DSS compliant setting.