• Provide Support for Product Management Certifications for Software and Hardware.
• Align with Procurement, Legal and security for third party onboarding activities for new third parties, or updates to current third parties.
• Responsible for balancing third party Evaluation rotation (logically) to avoid single threading and unnecessary bottlenecks with third parties causing unnecessary delays to certification.
• Third Party Gap Analysis Management (Schedule, Transition Official Reports into JIRA tickets).
• Actively participate in all onsite evaluations.
• Responsible for budgeting/ordering/shipping of physical equipment and tools to labs or onsite for timely testing prior to third party testing
• Collaborate closely with PM (Product Management) / PD (Product Development) / Certification Architects across certification efforts.
• Track Certification Specific Status.
• Open initiatives for issues opened by third parties which are gating certification.
• The right candidate will have experience with business finances, such as invoice approval, tracking milestones against payments, and reconciliation.
• Responsibility for maintaining the F5 Certification public-facing dashboard.
• Create DISA Plan of Action and Mitigation (POA&M) Management for DodIN APL, drive third party approval and open Bugs for remediation (JIRA tickets) including Executive Level Docs.
• Manage end to end process for DodIN APL, attending the Initial Contact Meetings, Briefings, and Readouts.
• Manage Product Management Certification Quarterly and Fiscal Budgets.
• Drive 508 / VPAT (Voluntary Product Assessment Template) Compliance efforts for hardware and software to ensure compliance with Federal Law.
• Responsible for identifying, building relationships and onboarding third party Evaluation labs for logical rotation to create options and minimize single threading and unnecessary bottlenecks for evaluations parties causing unnecessary delays to certification.
• Own the Configuration Management of all Certification specific documents ensuring version and level control.
• Create and Monitor JIRA and Confluence trackers and Dashboards Hardware and Software for Certifications.
• Provide Support for documenting quarterly sales results for certifications for Hardware and Software.
• Open JIRA initiatives as required for the support of Federal Certifications
• Manage contracts for third party advisors, consultants, and assessors ensuring business critical documentation is completed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for identifying, building relationships and onboarding third party Evaluation labs for logical rotation to create options and minimize single threading and unnecessary bottlenecks for evaluations parties causing unnecessary delays to certification.
• Manage relationship with the DoDIN APL Consultant, ensuring shipment of appliances for pre-testing and required documentation is provided.
• Responsible for budgeting/ordering/shipping of physical equipment and tools to labs or onsite for timely testing prior to third party testing
• Collaborate closely with PM (Product Management) / PD (Product Development) / Certification Architects across certification efforts.
• Track CVE (Common Vulnerability Exposures) scores in association with certified product versions.
• Collaborate on Slide preparation for Certified Products Steering Committee.
• The right candidate will have experience with business finances, such as invoice approval, tracking milestones against payments, and reconciliation.
• Lead Verification and Validation prep efforts and POA&M processing for DodIN APL.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of bachelor’s in business or engineering or 2+ years’ direct experience working with Federal Certifications
• Previous experience managing third party relationships with Evaluation Labs.
• Experience with certification documentation deliverables.
• Experience with third party testing schedules.
• Practical experience working with Federal Certifications including stakeholder management.
• Willingness to learn/adapt to new certifications as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Travel as needed.

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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $133,876.00 - $200,814.00

F5 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:

https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits

F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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.