
Site Reliability Engineer III – Networking
F5
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $149,600 - $224,400 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and maintain core network infrastructure across cloud, data center, and hybrid environments.
- Implement and optimize network automation to reduce manual operations and improve consistency.
- Develop and maintain network observability including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting for network‑centric systems.
- Lead incident response for network‑related issues and drive root‑cause analysis and long‑term remediation.
- Collaborate with SRE, security, and platform teams to ensure network reliability aligns with service needs.
- Manage and evolve load balancing, routing, and traffic management for high‑availability systems.
- Define and enforce network reliability standards including SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Harden network security through segmentation, policy enforcement, and best‑practice configurations.
- Support capacity planning and performance tuning for network‑heavy workloads.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of operational excellence.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in SRE, network engineering, or infrastructure roles with production ownership.
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and firewalls.
- Hands-on experience with cloud networking (AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, Azure VNets, GCP VPC).
- Proficiency with network automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or vendor-specific APIs.
- Experience with load balancers and traffic management (NGINX, Envoy, cloud LB services).
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and comfort troubleshooting at multiple layers.
- Programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
- Proven track record in incident management for network-related outages.
Benefits
- incentive compensation
- bonus
- restricted stock units
- benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
network infrastructurenetwork automationnetwork observabilityincident responseload balancingroutingtraffic managementnetwork securitycapacity planningperformance tuning
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationleadershipoperational excellence