
Senior Manager, SRE – Networking
F5
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $196,800 - $295,200 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead multi-team ownership: SRE, Networking, Virtualization, AI/GPU Infrastructure
- Oversee hybrid data centers spanning routing, switching, firewalls, SDN/overlay, Kubernetes CNI, and service‑mesh/L4‑L7 traffic to drive network reliability, performance, security, and automation
- Reliability strategy: SLO/SLI programs, incident management, automation, scaling Kubernetes platform operations across multiple distros
- Provide executive oversight for OpenStack compute storage, and networking services
- Ensure scalable VM lifecycle management, resource optimization, and operational maturity
- Own end‑to‑end reliability and performance of AI compute platforms, including model training/inference pipelines, GPU scheduling and autoscaling, and high‑performance compute environments
- Partner with ML, Data, and Product to build next-gen AI compute platforms
- Drive adoption of automation-first operations, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code
- Own the multi‑year platform roadmap across hybrid compute, Kubernetes, virtualization, AI, and networking while driving cross‑org alignment and leading large‑scale modernization across CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure
- Drive organizational strategy, prioritization, staffing plans, hiring, and budgeting
- Build a high-performance, inclusive culture focused on ownership, excellence, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- 10+ years infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering experience
- 5+ years managing engineering teams (including managers or tech leads)
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, virtualization, and cloud/networking
- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional alignment
- Proven record of accomplishment improving platform uptime, performance, and reliability
- Proven leadership in: Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, Titan-k8s, Robin, Vanilla K8s)
- Virtualization (Proxmox, VMware, XCP-ng, KVM)
- OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)
- Data center/cloud networking and distributed systems
- Strong executive communication skills and cross-org influencing ability
- Demonstrated experience improving operational maturity and reliability for large-scale systems
- Strong background in automation, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure architecture
- Experience running large-scale multi-cluster Kubernetes environments (preferred)
- Experience with service mesh, ingress controllers, and network policy frameworks (preferred)
- Familiarity with GPU scheduling, Ray, Kubeflow, MLflow, or Triton Inference Server (preferred)
- Experience with storage backends (Ceph, vSAN, ZFS, CSI-based solutions) (preferred)
- Experience driving multi-year infrastructure transformation programs (preferred)
- Expertise in GitOps and IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) (preferred)
Benefits
- Incentive compensation
- Bonuses
- Restricted stock units
- Comprehensive benefits package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Kubernetesvirtualizationcloud networkingOpenStackautomationCI/CDobservabilityinfrastructure architectureGPU schedulingGitOps
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcross-functional alignmentorganizational strategystaffing plansinfluencing abilitycontinuous improvementhigh-performance cultureownershipexcellence