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 customers—the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, financial and educational institutions, government entities, and consumer brands, to create, secure, and operate applications that deliver extraordinary digital experiences.

Do you enjoy problem-solving? Are you inspired by helping organizations across the globe? If so, we have just the job for you. Join F5’s team of Network Support Engineers as we accelerate our efforts to power and protect applications of every description and across every conceivable environment. So, if you’ve got a curiosity to learn new technologies, a passion for troubleshooting and a desire to work with innovative technology solutions, we’d 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.

• 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.

• Experience or ability to grow expertise in Public/Private Cloud technologies (Microsoft, AWS, Google), NGINX, Programming/Scripting (JavaScript, Python, BASH, PERL, Node.JS), Containers (Open Stack, Docker, Velcro), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)…