F5

Site Reliability Engineer III – Networking

F5

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San JoseCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $149,600 - $224,400 per year

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

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Hard Skills & Tools
network infrastructurenetwork automationnetwork observabilityincident responseload balancingroutingtraffic managementnetwork securitycapacity planningperformance tuning
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationleadershipoperational excellence