Solutions Architect, Orange

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.

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 decades, securing and optimizing digital experiences across industries. Trusted by businesses in over 170 countries, our technology powers nearly half the world’s 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.

When applying for any of the roles in F5, please note that our ideal candidate is not someone who meets all the posted requirements; 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 don’t 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 to achieve this mission.

F5 is looking for a Solutions Architect engaged with Orange as a global Telco and Service Provider: a senior pre-sales and technical leadership role within the EMEA Solution Architects sales organization. Your primary function will be to own the technical vision for F5 across Orange Group and all Orange subsidiaries and business units (France, Spain, Poland, Belgium and Orange Middle East and Africa as per today, including Orange Business and Orange Cyberdefense), both for solutions adopted by Orange and Solutions positioned by Orange to their end customers, working in collaboration with the Account Management team to discover opportunities and identify the F5 solutions that best address Orange’s business needs.

Where a Solutions Engineer supports individual opportunities, as a Solutions Architect you are expected to embrace Orange from a broad perspective: understanding the group’s transformation agenda end to end (network, cloud, data centre, security and AI), building the multi-year architectural narrative that connects F5 to it, and orchestrating the technical resources required to execute it. A fundamental part of your mission will be to become a trusted advisor to Orange and an evangelist for F5, internally and externally, via whitepapers, reference architectures, training, blogs, tech tips, workshops and speaking at industry and customer events.

You will champion Orange’s requirements and ensure they are understood by other teams within F5, such as Marketing, Product Management and Product Engineering. While Orange is your primary focus, the scope of this role could grow in the future. The reference architectures, assets and Service Provider expertise you build are expected to be reused across F5’s broader Strategic Account community, and your responsibilities may extend over time to other strategic accounts and to the wider F5 technology…