Role Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our lab infrastructure and virtualization platforms. This role will partner closely with engineering teams and lab users to understand requirements and deliver scalable, reliable, and highly automated infrastructure solutions that support development, testing, CI/CD, and product validation environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for lab virtualization platforms.

- Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand requirements and design scalable infrastructure solutions.

- Lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of virtualization and private cloud environments.

- Drive infrastructure automation, self-service capabilities, and operational efficiency.

- Define architecture standards, best practices, and long-term technology strategy.

- Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve reliability, scalability, performance, and user experience.

- Serve as the technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and virtualization challenges.

- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across platform and infrastructure initiatives.

Technical Expertise:

Virtualization & Private Cloud:

- Expert-level experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, Proxmox, XCP-ng, and Microsoft Hyper-V.

- Experience designing and operating large-scale virtualized and private cloud environments.

- Strong understanding of clustering, high availability, workload management, resource optimization, and virtual networking.

Automation & Platform Engineering:

- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform automation.

- Hands-on experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.

- Experience building automated provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.

Infrastructure Knowledge:

- Understanding of enterprise storage technologies, including NAS, SAN, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and Fibre Channel (FC).

- Foundational networking knowledge required to design and troubleshoot virtualization platforms.

- Strong understanding of Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments.

Qualifications:

- 14+ years of experience in virtualization, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud, or related disciplines.

- Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale infrastructure platforms.

- Strong architecture, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, containers, and cloud-native technologies.

- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, capacity planning, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

- Relevant certifications in virtualization, cloud, networking, or storage technologies are a plus.

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.

F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates.