Manager Engineering

• Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
• Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
• Ensures milestones are being met; monitor, track and make visible
• Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting.
• May meet with customers to communicate and review product features
• May communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.
• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.
• Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality.
• Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products.
• Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams
• Good working experience in Cloud based product development.
• Knowledge of OSI Layer-1 to 7 including LAN switches, routers, general TCP/IP and associated protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, SSL)
• Good knowledge of microservices architecture and API design and development best practices
• Working knowledge of development and deployment across multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare and OpenStack
• Knowledge or experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment
• Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so
• Track record of mentoring engineering staff
• Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality, on time and within budget.
• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
• Experience with QA metrics and reporting
• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.
• Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree with overall 12+ years of experience.
• 9+ years software development experience
• 3+ years leading or managing a development team