Global Solutions Engineer Telefonica

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.

Telefonica Principal Solutions Engineer

About the Company

Our world is full of amazing digital experiences but keeping them available secure and high performing is no small task.

F5 has been at the forefront of application delivery for three decadessecuring and optimizing digital experiences across industries. Trusted by businesses in over 170 countries our technology powers nearly half the worlds application data every day and blocked 20 billion malicious attacks last year alone.

F5 mission is to stay at forefront on application delivery in the era of AI and we believe that even the best technology is nothing without a great team behind it. At F5 we work alongside our customers and partners combining diverse perspectives experiences and technology to modernize application delivery and security in the era of AI. Together we help each other thrive.

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When applying for any of the roles in F5 please note that our ideal candidate is not someone who meets all thepostedrequirements; this is just a representative of how we know the job has been done in the past. We would love to talk to you even if you dont check all the boxes here but you believe in the F5 mission to deliver and secure any App in the era of AI and you can bring your motivation and your own unique capabilities achieve this mission.

Solution Engineer for Telefonica Job Overview:

F5 is looking for a Principal Solutions Engineer (SE) as a pre-sales technical role with focus on Telefonica Global Account which as part of EMEA sales organization. TheSEs primary responsibility is to support the sales team in charge of Telefonica Global and all Telefonica Subsidiaries (Spain UK Germany and Latam as per today) with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 solutions to be effective an SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the eco-system that we work in. Fear not we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

Thehigh-levelobjective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling relevant F5 solutions and products to our customers business needs in partnership with the Sales Account Managers (s)perspective the SE is a trusted advisor who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges andis able topropose effective solutions to mitigate their concerns/offer gainful F5 SE not onlypresents the technical features but also business benefits in the Technical Value Proposition.

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What youll do:

Articulate the F5productstrategymessaging and positioning F5svalue propositionand solutionsfor customer business objectives.

Providetechnical expertise through sales presentations solution designs solution demonstrationsproof of conceptsbyvarious mediums in-person/virtual presentations white boardsetc.

Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure of complex global accounts like Telefonica.

Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Managers team by identifying the Champions getting their technical validation support and sponsorship.

Consistently provide world-class customer servicethrough the customer life cycle.

Work collaboratively with internal technical and salesresources share best practices updatesofferand seekexpertise as the need arisesin various opportunities.

How youll do it:

By your knowledge and experience with Data Centers Virtualization and Cloud computing environments as well as AI Factory infrastructures;

Experience with Service Providers Mobile network architectures and protocols especially mobile network architectures and protocols defined by 3GPP (4G and 5G) with specific focus on Packe Core and Telco Cloud infrastructures

Knowledge on news generation network Data Center infrastructures (based on high speed connections IP routing BGP-EVPN etc.)

You will have worked with DevOps CI/CD as well ascontainer orchestration solutions (eg: Kubernetes Openshift etc).

Experience in the RFx processes

Knowledge of Network and Application Security

What youll bring:

8 years of related industry experience.

BS/BA or equivalent work experience.

Previous experience as Solution Engineer working for Telefonica or as alternative for a global Telco Provider;

Familiarity/experience withF5 technology or similar industrysolution deploymentis a plus.

AI knowledge is a plus

Relevant certifications are a plus.

Fluent verbal and writing skills in English.

What youll get:

The role will require customer meetings for at least 50% of time which could be remote/virtual or face to face meetings whenever possible.

This is a self-driven roleso career growth and developmentareavailable at every stage of your career.

Thisrole reports to the Global Solutions Engineering/Architect Manager of the Global Account Teams and is primarily based out of Spain with flexibility to work remotely as well

Competitive payfamily friendly benefits and cool perks

Tuition assistance for professional development

Culture of giving back strongdiversity and inclusioninterest groups

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 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 .