Senior IT Infrastructure and Solutions Architect

Overview

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.

Reporting to the VP, Technology Resilience, the Senior IT Infrastructure Governance & Architecture Specialist owns enterprise-wide governance of IT infrastructure design, architecture, high availability (HA), and technology standards across F5's hybrid and multi-cloud environment. This is a centralized, strategic governance role — not a hands‑on engineering or implementation position. Think of it as the most senior technical lens on the enterprise: you will assess what exists, evaluate what's been proposed, identify what's broken or at risk, and drive the organization to the right outcome.

You will work alongside our Senior Architects, DR and BC specialists owning the complementary domain of design integrity, architecture governance, and high availability assurance
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This role requires someone who is deeply experienced, independently driven, highly confident, and capable of engaging executives and engineering teams with equal authority. You don't need to be told what to do — you already know what good looks like, and you hold others to that standard.

• Architecture & Design Governance: Evaluate current‑state and proposed IT designs across backup infrastructure, networking, compute/storage, cloud platforms, and high availability — assessing against industry standards and F5's risk tolerance. Produce structured findings, gap analyses, and actionable recommendations.
• ARB & M&A Governance: Serve as a reviewing authority on the Architecture Review Board (ARB); lead infrastructure governance assessments for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures — evaluating inherited environments and integration risk.
• Standards Ownership: Establish and enforce enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks for HA design, infrastructure resilience, and technology lifecycle; ensure alignment with NIST, ISO 27001, SOX, GPDR and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Assessment & Reporting: Conduct deep‑ dive assessments of as‑is configurations, deployment patterns, and design documentation; translate technical findings into executive‑level reports, risk scorecards, and remediation roadmaps presented to senior leadership and governance bodies.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership: Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Network Operations, Security/CISO, and application teams to guide redesigns, enforce standards, and integrate governance into change management and project delivery life cycles.
• Vendor & Technology Governance: Evaluate infrastructure vendor solutions (backup platforms, cloud‑native HA/DR services, network and compute technologies) from a governance and standards perspective; influence procurement and architecture decisions.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor emerging threats, technology trends, and evolving industry frameworks; proactively evolve F5's infrastructure governance posture toward greater resilience, automation, and risk reduction.

• Experience: 12+ years of progressive enterprise IT experience, with a minimum of 5+ years in a governance, architecture review, or enterprise assessment role (not hands‑on engineering).
• Domain Expertise: Expert‑level knowledge across two or more of the following: backup/recovery architecture (preferred), network design, compute/storage design, cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), and high availability design patterns (preferred).
• Governance
  
  Skills:
  
  Demonstrated experience leading architecture review processes, conducting gap analyses, producing executive‑grade documentation, and driving remediation outcomes across large, complex organizations.
• Cloud Proficiency: Solid…