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.
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of Cloud Administrators, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and DevOps professionals across AWS and Azure environments. This is a hands-on leadership role that requires deep technical expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure, strong people management skills, and the ability to drive operational excellence at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & People Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of AWS/Azure Cloud Administrators and SREs, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, career development planning, and hiring/onboarding for the team
- Define team goals, KPIs, and OKRs aligned with organizational objectives
- Build a high-performing team through recruiting, coaching, and retention strategies
Cloud Infrastructure & Operations
- Oversee the design, deployment, and management of cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments
- Drive cloud architecture decisions, ensuring best practices for security, scalability, cost optimization, and high availability
- Establish and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, or Bicep
- Manage cloud cost governance, FinOps practices, and resource optimization across accounts/subscriptions
Site Reliability Engineering
- Champion SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and incident management
- Develop and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies using tools like CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortem processes
- Drive automation of toil reduction and reliability improvements across services
DevOps & Automation
- Oversee CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI)
- Promote GitOps, configuration management, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, AKS)
- Drive adoption of automation across provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Development, Security, Product, and Platform teams to ensure infrastructure meets business and application requirements
- Collaborate with InfoSec to implement cloud security best practices (IAM, networking, compliance, vulnerability management)
- Communicate infrastructure strategy, risks, and progress to senior leadership
Required Qualifications
12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles, with 6+** years in a management/leadership capacity**
Deep hands-on expertise with both AWS and Azure (multi-cloud environments)
Strong understanding of core cloud services:
- AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, EKS, CloudFormation, Route 53, etc.
- Azure: Virtual Machines, AKS, Azure AD, App Services, Azure Functions, VNets, ARM/Bicep, etc.
Proven experience managing SRE or Cloud Ops teams, including on-call rotations, incident management, and reliability engineering
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong understanding of networking (DNS, load balancing, CDN, VPN, firewalls) in cloud contexts
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms
Experience with FinOps and cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, CloudHealth)
roficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell)
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
QA Automation experience — familiarity with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Robot Framework) and the ability to guide or oversee QA automation efforts, integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and support infrastructure testing practices (e.g., Terratest, InSpec, Checkov)
Cloud certifications such as:
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional / DevOps Engineer Professional
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert / DevOps Engineer Expert
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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.