Solutions Engineer

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.

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the sales organization. TheSEs primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 solutions to our 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-levelobjectiveis to achieve the allocated sales target and selling relevant F5 solutions and products in North America. The SE is a trusted adviser 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 offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Our solutions bridge the gap between NetOps and DevOps with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer.

What youll do:

• Articulate theF5productstrategymessagingand positioning F5svalue propositionand solutionsfor customer businessobjectives
• Providetechnicalexpertise through sales presentations solution designs solutiondemonstrationsproofofconceptsbyvariousmediums in-person/virtual presentations whiteboardsetc
• Mentor and educate sales teams on value of F5 solutions and business drivers
• Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizationalstructure.
• Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager by identifying the Technical Decision Maker getting their technical validation support andsponsorship.
• Consistently provide world-class customer servicethrough the customer life cycle
• Work collaboratively with internal technical andsalesresourcesshare best practicesupdatesofferandseekexpertise as the need arisesin variousopportunities.

Technical Qualifications and Skills

• Intelligent load balancing
• Application acceleration
• Application request routing
• Web serving
• Dynamic content caching
• SSL and compression offload
• BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS EE MIS) or equivalent experience
• Experience as a Sales Engineer
• Experience in traffic management and load-balancing technologies e.g. F5 Citrix Riverbed Kemp or others
• Knowledge of HTTP web servers and web applications
• Knowledge of associated protocols e.g. TCP/IP WebSocket SPDY/HTTP2 SSL SMTP POP DNS etc.
• Skills in Linux-/UNIX-based systems
• Skills in networking technologies and Internet security products and services
• Experience with cloud providers (GCP AWS Azure etc.)
• Microservices architecture systems and tools experience/knowledge (K8s Docker etc.)
• API development and/or management
• Experience in DevOps environment (understand tools processes culture)
• Experience working with enterprise customers in the financial services space
• 5 years of experience Is required

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.

F5 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 .