Technical Support Engineer (Network)

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.

Powering and protecting applications

We empower our customersthe worlds largest enterprises service providers financial and educational institutions government entities and consumer brandsto create secure and operate applications that deliver extraordinary digital experiences.

Overview of EMEA Technical Support Engineer role

Do you enjoy problem-solving Are you inspired by helping organizations across the globe

If so we have just the job for you. Join F5s team of Technical Support Engineers as we accelerate our efforts to power and protect applications of every description and across every conceivable environment.

So if youve got a curiosity to learn new technologies a passion for troubleshooting and a desire to work with innovative technology solutions wed love to hear from you.

Working as one of our team opens lots of career development opportunities and unlocks a multitude of domains to specialize in.

Your day-to-day activities will include:

• Providing Level 2 technical support to resolve hardware and software issues related to F5 products.
• Maintaining excellent customer communication including project status plan-of-actions and resolution steps.
• Providing F5 customers and partners with a consistently high-quality support experience.
• Working with our tier three engineering services team to overcome technical challenges.
• Building strong working relationships with peers partnering with engineers managers and related F5 departments.
• Writing and updating solution articles to share technical expertise internally and externally
• Handling multiple cases and prioritizing tasks based on customer and business needs.
• Following standards-based processes (as defined in our Quality Management System).
• Continuing your own professional development through participating in ongoing training on our products and related technologies.

The following experience and skills will help you succeed as a Support Engineer at F5:

• Customer support experience with enterprise-level corporate customers in production environments.
• Hands-on technical experience with LAN/WAN operations (e.g. DNS Open SSL Cryptography virtualization etc.) Network Protocols UNIX or Linux (e.g. Redhat) operating systems as well as VMware or equivalent hypervisors and network hardware.
• Solid grasp of TCP/IP protocols and the OSI model.
• Understanding packet captures using Wireshark
• Knowledge of DNS and HTTP protocol in detail.
• Understating of SSL/TLS handshake
• Experience of Network Security (e.g. Web Application Security AAA VPN DDoS Malware Application Firewalls etc.).
• Ability to read write and speak English fluently including technical concepts and terminology.
• Able to communicate technical information to customers with varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Good analytical problem-solving abilities.
• Attention to detail.

The following skills are nice to have but if you dont have them F5 will be happy to help you learn those in time :

• Experience or ability to grow expertise in Public/Private Cloud technologies (Microsoft AWS Google) NGINX Programming/Scripting (JavaScript Python BASH PERL ) Containers (OpenStack Docker Velcro) Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) and/or Automation (Ansible Git).
• Fluency in other languages.
• Experience with F5 technologies

Wed love to hear from you!

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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 .