Security Operations Engineer I (Bot Defense)

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Our Security as a Service (SaaS) Security Operations Center (SOC) is the epicenter of dynamic security events; clients under siege daily with new attacks and attack vectors evolving continuously.

You will partner collaboratively with seasoned engineers to keep our customers safe and stopmalicious automation. As part of our Global SOC team you willbe responsible forprovidingreal-timeoversight intoprotection detection and mitigationstrategies for our customers.TheBot Defense SecurityEngineer is acustomer facing traffic analyzing position

When not unravelling security issues you may spend time mentoring and training colleagues troubleshooting processes and spreading security knowledge throughout the business or investigating new attacks and defenses.

A contender for this rolepossessesa passion for information security enjoys solving problemsand sharing knowledge with others excels under pressure and is continuously looking for opportunities for personal and team improvement.

Attractions of the Job

The Security Operations Center is a criticalcomponentof the Security & Distributed Cloud Portfolio. Our expert Security Engineers defend a wide spectrum of companies from online fraud DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Application layer and other security threats.

You will work side-by-side with some of the finest Security Engineers in the worldleveragingthe best security products available defending against attacks in real-time analyzing industry trends and innovating new protections against a variety of evolving threats and vulnerabilities.

What will you do

• Investigate alerts into potential threats both mitigated and unmitigated ensuring our customers are protected

• Interact directly with customers who are under attack via phone emailand/or ticketing systems

• Provide proactive and real-time guidance to customers on security protocols and defensive security response

• Document actions taken in incident management systems knowledge base or ticketing systems as

• Establish yourself as a trusted security advisor internally and externally

• Engage and support cross-functional teams

• Collaborate with Product Management and Development on requirements and product release activities

• Ensure documented processes and procedures are relevant and up to date

Minimum Qualifications

• 0-2 years experiencein cyber related fields

• Must be able to communicate technical and operational details fluently in English (written and oral)

• Generalunderstanding and experience with HTTP and web application security (school project experience counts)

• Familiarity with SQL injection cross-site scripting web scraping CSRF brute force cookie manipulation parameter tampering and other emerging Layer 4-7 attacks/vulnerabilities to define configure and manage security policies encouraging RFC compliance

• Excellent customer service skills

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving ability including analytical thinking and a strong attention to detail

• Interest in Cyber security and/or Network security and/or prior NOC or SOC experience

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S/A.S in Information System Security or related degree/experience

• Background in SecurityIncident Response

• Fluency inadditionalspoken/writtenlanguages

• Familiarity witha programmingor scripting language.

• Understanding in common enterprise network technologies

• Fundamental Linux skills

• Familiarity with F5 hardware and software (Big-IP TMOSiRulesiApps iControl etc.)

Skills & abilitiesyoullbe improving:

• Ability to excel in a dynamic challenging security-oriented operations environment

• Undaunted by and quickly capable of coming up to speed on new and developing technologies

• Relay technical information to customers withdifferent levelsof technical competence

• Experience supporting corporate customers in production environments working with relevant technologies

• Experience working with Customer Support and Service Management portals including provisioning reporting and configuration

• Ability to perform log file analysis

• Comfortable working with moderate supervision

• Ability to develop creative efficient solutions to complex problems

• Work well in a customer-event driven environment with little day-to-day oversight

Work Environment

• Duties can be performed in an Operations Center environment(Guadalajara) ORremotely within the country (Mexico) while sitting at a desk or computer table

• Duties require the ability toutilizea computer communicate over thetelephoneand read digital material

• Working in an environment where work hours are scheduled shifts in a full-time position

• This role may beto work outside of core business hours including early morning late evening overnight weekends and holidays

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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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 ofreasonablefor candidates. Requestingan accommodationis 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