Sr Data Center Engineer

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

About Us 

F5 is a leading technology company dedicated to securing and optimizing applications across diverse on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments. We are looking for passionate individuals who are ready to help us build and scale resilient infrastructure that supports our global operations and innovative product suite. 

The Role 

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to join our infrastructure team. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation, and maintenance of our core data center architecture. You will play a critical role in ensuring our infrastructure is scalable, highly available, and secure.

The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of hands-on engineering experience and architectural vision, with broad expertise in storage systems, cross-platform OS administration, virtualization, and server hardware lifecycles. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Data Center Architecture & Strategy: Design, deploy, and manage scalable data center infrastructure. Evaluate current physical and virtual environments to recommend and implement structural improvements. 

• Storage Administration: Manage and optimize enterprise storage area networks (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS), and backup solutions to ensure data integrity, performance, and availability. 

• Systems Administration (Windows & Linux): Deploy, configure, and maintain both Windows Server and Linux (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu) operating systems, ensuring environments are patched, secure, and performing optimally. 

• Virtualization Management: Architect and administer enterprise hypervisor and/or container services including virtual machine provisioning, optimization, and troubleshooting. 

• Hardware Lifecycle Management: Plan and execute data center wide hardware refreshes across server, storage, and network. Manage capacity planning, vendor coordination, rack-and-stack operations, and physical server decommissioning. 

• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Proactively monitor data center health, network performance, and system resource utilization. Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents. 

• Documentation & Compliance: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure architecture, standard operating procedures, and disaster recovery plans. 

• Site Inspection and Inventory: Maintain global site inventory and detailed designs using a combination of remote hands and travel to colocation and manufacturing locations as needed. 

Required Qualifications 

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, data center architecture, or a similar systems engineering role. 

• Virtualization: Strong, hands-on administrative experience with virtualization ecosystems (e.g., vCenter/ESXi, Openshift/Openstack, Nutanex). 

• Operating Systems: Proven expertise in administering, tuning, and troubleshooting both Linux and Windows Server environments. 

• Storage: Solid understanding of enterprise storage administration, storage protocols (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS), and data protection strategies. 

• Hardware: Demonstrated experience managing server hardware lifecycles, including planning and executing large-scale hardware refreshes and upgrades. 

• Networking: Fundamental knowledge of data center networking concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, switching/routing, load balancing). 

• Data Center: Experience managing physical installation and configuration of racks/power/cooling/cross-connects in coordination with colocation providers. 

• Infrequent Travel: Support quarterly travel to global data center and manufacturing locations as needed 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience operating in hybrid or multi-cloud environments. 

• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ansible) for infrastructure-as-code initiatives. 

• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Certified Openstack Admin, VMware VCP, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator, Linux+ or RHCE, CCNA). 

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $128,500.00 - $192,700.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and 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. 

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.