Platform Security Architect (San Jose)

Platform Security Architect

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a world class, mission critical and highly reliable platform serving a global customer base. Our customers depend on us to keep their business highly available and secure around the planet. We are rapidly expanding our platform in many dimensions global footprint, infrastructure, performance, low latency etc. We are looking for a hands-on, driven, results oriented Architect in our Platform Security organization.

This organization is responsible for the build and life cycle management of Distributed Cloud platform with secure first mindset. We build, engineer and evolve systems, tools and practices to ensure our Distributed Cloud is always protected from code to traffic.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a blueprint with Security First mindset for Distributed Cloud.
• Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company.
• Drive architectural reviews, design validations, and threat models to ensure operational, security, and scalability concerns are addressed early.
• Work closely with Engineers and Managers to drive the engineering and deployment and operationalization of Distributed Cloud platform.
• Ensure the documenting and recording every aspect of Distributed Cloud.
• Planning, tracking and scheduling software deliverables.
• Ensure teams can identify problems within software systems and drive issues to resolution.
• Developing good working relationships with other employees and senior leadership.
• Engineer systems and tools to secure communication between On Prem and Public Clouds.
• Evolve Distributed Cloud to meet federally regulated standards FedRamp, IL5, HIPAA.
• Build and Operate systems for data protection, identifying and mitigating threats from supply chains, external attacks.

Required Qualifications