Senior Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities

• Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging and positioning F5’s value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives.
• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proof of concepts by various mediums – in‑person/virtual presentations, white boards etc.
• Mentor and educate sales teams on value of F5 solutions and business drivers.
• Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure.
• Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship.
• Consistently provide world‑class customer service through the customer life cycle.
• Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities.

• Intelligent load balancing
• Application acceleration
• Application request routing
• Application Security principles/tools (Web Application Firewalls, L7 DoS Solutions, Bot Defense)
• Web serving
• Dynamic content caching
• TLS/SSL and compression offload
• BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS, EE, MIS) or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a Sales Engineer solution selling across a multi‑product portfolio.
• 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, Web Socket, 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.).
• Experience selling and building SaaS solutions.
• Microservices architecture, systems, and tools experience/knowledge (K8s, Docker, etc.).
• API development and/or management.
• Experience in Dev Ops environment (understand tools, processes, culture).
• Experience working with enterprise customers.
• 8+ years of experience.
• Knowledge of associated protocols, e.g., TCP/IP, Web Socket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS, etc.

Annual base pay: $ – $. You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at  F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Hybrid:
Employees within 30 commutable miles of an F5 office are required to work from the office a minimum of 30 business days per quarter. Remote:
Primarily work from designated home location but can come into an F5 office to work or travel to an offsite location as needed.

F5 is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and 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 law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.

F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates.