Engineer II, Software

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.

Position Summary

Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity, and teamwork?  F5 Inc, A Market leader in Application Delivery Controllers and Security platforms is hiring for its Centre of Excellence office in Hyderabad, India.  Join our team of super smart engineers working in a fun, fast-paced, and highly technical environment where your dreams can become reality. 

You will be tasked with our most challenging problems, diagnosing, and troubleshooting complex systems issues, and designing & developing features and components of highly scalable, distributed, and high performing carrier grade software solutions that ensure private, secure communications. Working very closely with architects, leads, cross-functional teams and other stakeholders you will strengthen F5’s technology offerings. 

About You:  

• Quality first demeanor, low tolerance to imperfections, and passionate about test automation  

• Proficient in architecting, designing, and developing test automation frameworks  

• Always on the lookout for improvements and optimizations. Constantly upgrading skills by exploring new tools and techniques  

• Results-oriented and positive team-centric approach with an ability to work with geographically distributed teams  

• Proactive and takes initiative. A quick learner and driver for a change  

• Possess a critical approach with excellent problem-solving skills  

• Good time-management skills and very organized. Great interpersonal and communication skills  

Responsibilities:  

• You are a champion for product quality within our team and are accountable for an assessment of product readiness and commitments to product delivery schedules  

• Develop and build the test infrastructure and test automation frameworks. Improve existing test frameworks  

• Develop high-quality, end-to-end automation tests that match acceptance criteria and user scenarios  

• Provide feedback on coding standard methodologies with an emphasis on growing code testability and maintainability  

• Be a key contributor to the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. Perform code reviews for your teammates  

• Work with our Product Management Team to define good acceptance criteria for our stories  

• Perform manual exploratory testing and troubleshooting to help identify difficult-to-find bugs  

• Ensure the monthly releases are validated and ready for our customers. Work with a distributed agile team  

• Help the Escalation Team to investigate customers’ issues and drive them to resolution and closure  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:  

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field and 3+ years of work experience in relevant roles  

• Experience building test frameworks from scratch using Python and/or GoLang. Experience in writing automated end-to-end tests for large-scale enterprise applications and SaaS products  

• Deep understanding of software quality methodologies and processes  

• Experience with CI/CD and project management tools (e.g., Gitlab, other CI/CD tools, Jira, Confluence, etc.)  

• Experience with web technologies (e.g., REST, gRPC, JSON etc.)  

• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Pytest/WebDriverIO/ Cucumber/Selenium WebDriver)  

• Experience with public clouds (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform)  

• Solid experience with Linux operating systems. Good understanding of networking  

• Preferable: Experience with container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)  

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of handling services in a large-scale distributed environment

• Require hands-on programming skills in developing automation modules on Python/GoLang

• Experience with configuration management and deployment automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.

• Require hands-on experience with both private and public cloud infrastructure and interfacing programmatically through APIs.

• Apache Webservers – How to set up a Webserver and Ngnix. Understanding of webservers and how it works would be an essential skill.

• CI Systems – We are big on Jenkins. Again, we are looking for someone who has modeled workflows in a CI system and has in-depth administration knowledge or at least an understanding of the concepts.

• Dockers and Containers – Being able to build and deploy images is a critical part of our operations. We expect all our stacks to be containerized in the coming months.

• Good understanding of web operations best practices

• Basic networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTPS, VLANs, DNS, load balancing and firewalling, etc.

• Working knowledge of Linux OS and Virtualization techniques/tools is a must

• Experience working in a micro-services environment such as Kubernetes is an advantage

• Strong communication skills

• Excellent customer service focus

Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience with a Bachelor of Engineering in ECE/Computers or 2+ years of experience with ME/MTech in ECE/Computers.

• Excellent organizational agility and interpersonal skills throughout the organization.

• Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with International teams.

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.

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.