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 F5 s 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

Mgr, Engineering