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Externally, they collaborate with vendors regarding product roadmaps and emerging hardware and software requirements, while providing strategic guidance to supplier executives on industry trends and product strategies that deliver substantive value to F5 and the broader sector. Your artifacts are not limited to F5 infrastructure; instead, they take into account the wider internet landscape, considering factors such as connectivity strategies, regulatory changes, political conditions, disaster recovery, and high availability, as well as supply chains.

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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.The RoleThe Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, testing, and documenting the fundamental infrastructure build patterns upon which the F5 SaaS business operates. They act as liaisons to internal stakeholders, such as product management, engineering, finance, and procurement. Externally, they collaborate with vendors regarding product roadmaps and emerging hardware and software requirements, while providing strategic guidance to supplier executives on industry trends and product strategies that deliver substantive value to F5 and the broader sector. The Infrastructure Architect will also be responsible for maintaining existing high-level relationships with F5 customers and suppliers.F5 Infrastructure Architects are recognized experts in their field - known by name across industry bodies and in corporate boardrooms. Their artifacts reside in some of todays most critical and well-known global infrastructure deployments. They have lived through operating infrastructure at scale, and their architectural work product incorporates those experiences, thoroughly exploring and solving for scale, availability, operability, simplicity, and tooling. Their designs, documents, and platform selections directly impact the velocity and direction of F5's SaaS business and influence the work of thousands of people. They are mentors, and their broad insight is routinely sought after by members of infrastructure engineering, as well as F5 executives, up to and including the CEO. They have a heavy execution bias and are keenly aware that an architecture ivory tower is a recipe for failure. They remain engaged with the more operational areas of the company and are not just open to new ideas but also thrive on exploring those ideas and collaborating with others to make them real. They are driven, highly empathetic, fearlessly kind, and believe in the concept of exhibiting and soliciting personal authenticity without compromise. They never settle for less on culture, people, or values. They are radically transparent and always tell the truth to any level of the organization.Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, test, and document the baseline build patterns underpinning F5's entire SaaS business</li><li>Produce full-scope, tested artifacts that provably enable 99.99% platform availability</li><li>Act as an escalation point and mentor for the engineering teams, ensuring that questions about the solutions you produce are addressed quickly and thoroughly</li><li>Ensure that your solution artifacts are comprehensive, including datacenter footprint, racks, cabling, hardware selection, automation, documentation, runlists, SKUs, configurations, and telemetry</li><li>Your designs span substrates when warranted, and your capabilities are just as exceptional in 3rd party substrates as they are in first party</li><li>Deliver designs that contain clear KPIs and measurement strategies</li><li>Your designs clearly incorporate COGS impact and financial inflection points, helping F5 understand the costs of your proposed architecture over time</li><li>You understand that not everything is a long-term deliverable. Sometimes, you'll need to pivot from a next-generation architectural deliverable to a near-term technical debt retirement ask</li><li>Act as an advocate for infrastructure engineering within F5, ensuring that the org's requirements are well-understood by partner teams</li><li>Act as F5's infrastructure expert and advocate within the broader industry. Your credibility in the infrastructure architecture space is unquestioned</li><li>You operate with an extreme level of independence, making good prioritization decisions based on what you learn from your peers</li><li>You understand the criticality of relationships, and build them early, up and down the organizational ladder</li><li>Your requirements gathering processes are very comprehensive, touching not just the technical areas of the company</li><li>You recognize that success isn't just about creating an architecture, but also seeing your design successfully deployed and operated as designed</li></ul>BeF5 Requirements<ul><li>Be kind. You have advanced skills in assessing your audience, allowing you to tailor your questions, responses, and language appropriately for any setting.</li><li>You take ownership of problems and drive them through to resolution.</li><li>You build strong relationships with both internal and external customers by communicating transparently and clearly, maintaining composure under pressure, and choosing language that is articulate, empathetic, and respectful.</li><li>You are a talent magnet. People gravitate to F5 because you're here.</li><li>You are highly transparent and have a bias toward over-communication, understanding that the architecture process is iterative and collaborative, not a black box.</li><li>You understand that large portions of F5 are your customer and ensure that their needs are broadly met by the patterns you produce and solutions you select. F5's customers see you as an ally, and seek your input about how they should solve their own complex engineering challenges.</li><li>Your peers come to you with challenges (personal or professional) without fear of judgment or reprisal. They view you as an ally and advocate.</li></ul>Technical Requirements<ul><li>You pivot and re-prioritize with grace.</li><li>Your products are at the optimal intersection of business velocity and safety, demonstrably able to provide 99.99% availability.</li><li>You weave security into every artifact, never sacrificing customer safety for velocity.</li><li>You have 12+ years of significant, progressive consumer webscale or multi-national carrier substrate/infrastructure engineering experience.</li><li>You have designed and fielded infrastructures for the largest and most critical webscale, financial, or carrier deployments on earth.</li><li>You can confidently and appropriately message status and plans internally and externally.</li><li>You measure everything and act on data. Not only do you ensure that architecture is not an ivory tower, but you also actively prevent ivory towers.</li><li>You understand that the availability and security of the F5 SaaS platform is paramount, and when needed, you enthusiastically jump in to help.</li><li>The quality of your written English language skills is novel-worthy. Your audience will range from highly technical engineering staff, to the CEO of the company.</li><li>You are biased toward automation as a problem remediation vector and as a velocity enabler.</li><li>You obtain support and consensus using data and experience, not opinion.</li><li>Your artifacts are not limited to F5 infrastructure; instead, they take into account the wider internet landscape, considering factors such as connectivity strategies, regulatory changes, political conditions, disaster recovery, and high availability, as well as supply chains. These artifacts anticipate future developments and offer clear, well-reasoned recommendations.</li><li>Your knowledge of engineering and operational needs is extremely nuanced and predictive, delivering what your partners across the company need to make F5 and its customers successful.</li><li>You know who to call in the broader industry when there is a problem outside of our control.</li><li>You understand the criticality of security engineering and compliance, and partner closely with F5's CISO organization to ensure that your work products prioritize customer security.</li></ul>Job Description and CompensationThe 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: $246,400.00 - $369,600.00F5 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: <a href="https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits" rel="nofollow">https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits</a>. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.Equal Employment OpportunityIt 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.

F5 Inc

Infrastructure Architect

Architectural Services

Automation

Black Box Testing

Communication Skills

Consumer Protection

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)

Customer Relations

Disaster Recovery

Documentation

Engineering

English Language

Establish Priorities

F5 Network Software

Finance

High Availability

Industry/Trade Analysis

Internet Security

Machine Tool

Mentoring

Network Operations Center

Performance Metrics

Process Improvement

Product Engineering

Product Management

Product Planning

Product Strategy

Purchasing/Procurement

Regulations

Requirements Management

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)

Substrate Design

Team Player

Telemetry

Test Design

Vendor/Supplier Planning

Writing Skills

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Overview: The Regional Facilities Director provides leadership and operational oversight for facility management activities across multiple hospitals, clinics, and support buildings within the health system. - Direct preventive and corrective maintenance programs to ensure reliable operation of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, medical gas, fire alarm/suppression, emergency power, and other building systems.

Overview:
The Regional Facilities Director provides leadership and operational oversight for facility management activities across multiple hospitals, clinics, and support buildings within the health system. This role ensures safe, compliant, efficient, and cost‑effective operations of all physical plant systems in alignment with CMS Conditions of Participation, DNV NIAHO standards, Joint Commission (when applicable), NFPA codes, ASHRAE guidelines, FGI requirements, and state and local regulations.

Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategy- Provide regional leadership for facility operations across multiple hospitals and off‑site locations.- Develop, implement, and sustain standardized policies, procedures, and best practices across assigned facilities.- Serve as a strategic advisor on facility condition, infrastructure risk, capital planning, and regulatory compliance.- Mentor and support local facility directors, managers, and technical teams to drive a high‑performance culture. Regulatory Compliance & Life Safety- Ensure compliance with CMS CoPs, DNV Environment of Care (EOC) and Life Safety (LS) standards, Joint Commission standards (as applicable), NFPA codes, and all relevant state regulations.- Lead and manage regional EOC program oversight, including structured EOC rounding, documentation, risk identification, and corrective action follow‑up.- Coordinate survey preparedness and response for DNV, CMS validation surveys, fire marshal inspections, OSHA, and insurance audits.- Serve as a regional subject matter expert for Life Safety Code, physical environment requirements, and regulatory expectations. Operations & Maintenance- Direct preventive and corrective maintenance programs to ensure reliable operation of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, medical gas, fire alarm/suppression, emergency power, and other building systems.- Ensure uptime, system reliability, and consistent operational performance across all assigned facilities.- Establish regional performance metrics for work order management, response times, life safety device testing, and utility system performance. EOC Program Management & Rounding (Regional)- Lead and coordinate standardized EOC rounding processes across all assigned hospitals and clinics.- Track findings, trends, and risk indicators; ensure timely corrective action and consistent documentation.- Develop and deliver training and education for local facility teams on EOC standards and physical environment compliance.- Partner with Safety, Nursing, Infection Prevention, Security, and Emergency Management teams to ensure a comprehensive, integrated EOC approach. Capital Planning & Project Oversight- Support development of regional capital plans and infrastructure renewal strategies.- Provide oversight for renovation, construction, and infrastructure improvement projects, ensuring adherence to codes, budgets, schedules, and organizational standards.- Collaborate with architects, engineers, contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs). Financial Management- Manage operating and capital budgets across assigned facilities.- Identify cost‑saving opportunities and drive efficient use of resources.- Oversee vendor and contract performance for maintenance, inspections, utilities, and outsourced services. Energy & Sustainability- Support organizational sustainability goals through energy management, utility optimization, and conservation initiatives.- Evaluate and implement energy‑efficient systems and building automation enhancements. Emergency Preparedness- Coordinate facility‑related emergency preparedness efforts regionally, including infrastructure support during drills and real events.- Maintain operational readiness for utility failures, severe weather events, and other disruptions.

Qualifications:
Education- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; Experience- 10+ years of healthcare facilities management experience, including multi‑site or regional leadership responsibility.- Strong knowledge of CMS, DNV, Joint Commission (as applicable), NFPA, and physical environment regulatory requirements. Certifications (Preferred)- CHFM, CHSP, CHEP, or equivalent professional credentials. Working Conditions- Frequent travel between regional facilities.- On‑call availability for emergencies, critical failures, and urgent operational issues.

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