Security Engineer III

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer III to advance our monitoring, detection, and incident response capabilities across the F5 SDC platform. Our platform provides a global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications. In this role, you will design and enhance monitoring and audit solutions, improve detection quality, and strengthen our ability to respond to and investigate security incidents in a large-scale distributed environment.

Key Responsibilities  Design, implement, and continuously enhance observability solutions by leveraging AI-powered monitoring, telemetry analytics, logging, tracing, and metrics collection to improve platform reliability, security visibility, incident detection, response effectiveness, availability, and forensic readiness. Partner with Software Architects, Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, SRE/Operations teams, Compliance stakeholders, and business leaders to define system boundaries, critical assets, security controls, and monitoring requirements across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Integrate and optimize logging, monitoring, and security telemetry pipelines with enterprise platforms such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, APM, cloud-native security tools, and AI-assisted analytics solutions, ensuring comprehensive data quality, coverage, and usability. Run Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response, Threat Detection, Vulnerability Management, and Engineering teams to establish and maintain effective escalation paths, communication workflows, and automated response mechanisms. Partner with development and infrastructure teams to identify, prioritize, remediate, and validate vulnerabilities, ensuring timely patch management, security hardening, and compliance with organizational security standards

Maintain SIEM deployment , upgrade as needed.

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Policy as Code, and Security as Code principles to automate deployment, governance, security controls, and compliance validation across cloud environments. Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations and weekend support activities, as required, to ensure timely response to operational incidents, security events, and critical platform issues.

Qualifications  Be Kind U.S. Citizenship

Required:

Due to FedRAMP compliance obligations, this role requires the candidate to be a U.S. citizen. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience).  4–6 years of experience in security operations, monitoring, detection engineering, or incident response.  Strong hands-on experience with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dash boarding tools such as AWS Guard Duty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, Crowd Strike, Data Dog, Splunk, Thycotic, or similar.  

Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform), including native security and observability services.  Solid understanding of log handling and telemetry pipelines: collection, normalization, integration with downstream systems, and alert configuration/tuning.  Proficiency with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, Shell).  

Experience with CICD and vulnerability…