
Senior Platform Engineer
F5
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $161,600 - $242,400 per year
Job Level
About the role
- We are looking for multiple Platform/Cloud Engineers to build and operate a secure, scalable cloud “landing zone” and platform foundations.
- You’ll define and automate governance using policy-as-code, create reusable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) libraries, and enable teams through CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
- Design, build, and operate cloud landing zones (multi-account/subscription, org structure, network, identity, logging, security baselines).
- Implement governance and guardrails using policy-as-code (e.g., Azure Policy, AWS Organizations/SCPs, OPA/Conftest), including exception handling and auditability.
- Deliver an infrastructure platform as a product to the internal development community.
- Develop reusable IaC modules/libraries (Terraform primary; Bicep/ARM and CloudFormation also valued) and promote standard patterns for teams.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, OS Images, containers, and platform components using GitOps workflows (PR-based changes, automated validation, progressive delivery).
- Standardize environments (dev/test/prod) with consistent controls, tagging/metadata, and cost management guardrails.
- Embed security and compliance into build/deploy: secret handling, encryption, IAM least privilege, vulnerability scanning, and evidence generation.
- Observability and SRE practices: implement monitoring/alerting and dashboards, support incident response, and help define/track SLIs/SLOs for platform services.
- Collaborate in an agile delivery model; participate in planning, refinement, and execution (SAFe experience is a bonus).
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience engineering cloud infrastructure on one or more of Azure, AWS, and GCP (architecture + implementation).
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform primary; Bicep/ARM and CloudFormation).
- Proven experience implementing landing zones / foundational cloud platforms (identity, network, shared services, governance).
- Experience with policy-as-code and automated compliance (e.g., Azure Policy, AWS Config + SCPs, OPA/Conftest).
- CI/CD expertise for infrastructure: pipeline design, testing/validation, approvals, environment promotion, drift detection.
- Working knowledge of configuration management/automation in current-state enterprise environments (e.g., Ansible and Puppet).
- Strong understanding of IAM, network security, encryption, key management, and secure-by-default patterns.
- Comfortable with Git-based workflows (PR reviews, branching strategies, versioning, release management).
- Scripting/programming ability (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go) to build automation and tooling.
- Strong Network Engineering background including cloud and hybrid-cloud connectivity, network security policy automation, and cloud native network architectures.
- Experience working in hybrid environments to deliver platform automation solutions in the Data Center.
- Experience with additional clouds: GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud.
- Familiarity with security and control frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-171, SOX, SOC 2, and ISO 27002.
- Kubernetes/platform experience (AKS/EKS/GKE), service mesh, or container platform operations.
- Familiarity with observability stacks: native CSP tooling, Datadog, Splunk, LogicMonitor.
Benefits
- More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits
- F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
- F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud infrastructureInfrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepCloudFormationpolicy-as-codeCI/CDscriptingnetwork securityKubernetes
Soft Skills
collaborationagile deliveryincident responsecommunicationproblem-solvingplanningexecutionrefinementleadershiporganizational