F5 Networks, Inc
Senior OSS Technical Evangelist (Finance)
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
NGINX, Inc., now part of F5, is the company behind the popular open source project. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications, with FOSS projects spanning from the webserver and API gateway, to a Kubernetes ingress controller, a service mesh and an app server.
The world runs on open source, and with its roots in OSS, NGINX is keenly aware. We know that the OSS community has helped us become the technology behind over 400 million websites! And we want to grow our engagement and connection with our community!
We're looking for a Technical Evangelist to help us tell the world about NGINX OSS – the projects we've created, the ones that we contribute to or support, as well as how we think about and value OSS.
You are passionate about open source technologies and the world of open source, living and breathing the OSS principles. You understand the importance of the community to OSS, and how collaboration and transparency lead to better solutions.
What you'll be doing
Develop original content to tell our OSS story – including videos, talks, blogs and the like.
Speak at key industry events, presenting talks or demos about our OSS offerings and our thinking around OSS.
Be our spokesperson: participate in events, engage in discussions on social media or platforms like Github.
Collaborate and engage with project contributors and leaders with vision across our OSS ecosystem.
Identify ways to grow our engagement with our OSS community and then execute on these.
Supervise and contribute to platforms and forums, both ours and those within the community such as StackOverflow and Github.
What we're looking for
Experience with leading or establishing a community around technology.
Proven experience contributing to open source projects.
At least 5 years' experience in a technical role, as a developer, systems engineer, in DevOps or similar.
Experience working with networking technologies, cloud architectures, microservices, containers, and languages such as Python and Ruby.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as evidenced by experience giving talks, demos and webinars.
Self-directed and ability to work with minimal direction.
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.
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