Partner Technical Advisor National Partners
Seattle, WA - USA
Job Summary
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.
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.
About the Role
The Partner Technical Advisor (Channel Solutions Engineer) is a senior technical pre-sales role embedded within a high-performing channel sales organization. This position is responsible for driving channel partner enablement accelerating product adoption and delivering successful customer outcomes through technical expertise solution alignment and strategic collaboration with F5s channel ecosystem.
Primary Responsibilities
Channel Partner Enablement & Relationship Management
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships with key channel partners.
- Develop and manage technical enablement plans for aligned channel partners.
- Train channel partner Sales and Solutions Engineer teams to identify and qualify opportunities.
- Coordinate channel partner training activities in partnership with F5 Sales teams.
- Deliver channel partner workshops and demand generation activities.
- Provide consistent training on F5 solutions and competitive differentiation.
Pre-Sales & Solution Design
- Articulate F5s sales strategy messaging and value proposition in the context of customer business objectives.
- Provide solution design guidance aligned with desired business outcomes.
- Clearly communicate the technical and business value of F5 solutions relative to competitive alternatives.
- Develop and contribute to customer- and partner-facing content including presentations use cases and technical collateral.
Partner & Sales Alignment
- Collaborate with Channel and Sales management to onboard channel partners and assess their capability to effectively position and sell F5 solutions.
- Provide proactive consultative support to channel partners as technical needs arise.
- Align channel partners with F5 Sales and Technical Support teams to facilitate timely resolution of issues.
- Understand and apply F5s critical issue escalation process when required.
Professional Development
- Maintain an advanced level of technical knowledge across F5s product portfolio the relevant industry landscape and pre-sales best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 5 years of related industry experience in networking security and/or web technologies.
- 3 years of pre-sales or solutions engineering experience.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure and GCP.
- Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes OpenShift or Docker Swarm.
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling including Jenkins Ansible Terraform GitHub/GitLab Artifactory SonarQube and Docker.
- Working knowledge of application development languages such as Python Java or JavaScript.
- In-depth knowledge of F5 technologies solutions and product offerings preferred.
- Knowledge of OWASP principles and application security fundamentals.
- Understanding of application security vulnerabilities threat vectors security controls and web application firewall (WAF) technologies.
- Advanced written verbal and presentation communication skills.
- Bachelors degree (BS/BA) or equivalent professional experience.
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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: $163400.00 - $245000.00F5 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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link: 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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.