Security Engineer - Incident response

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Security Engineer III _ Incident Response F5 Office of the CISO | Application Delivery, Security, and AI Resilience Position Summary

We are seeking a Security Engineer III based in Poland to serve as a dedicated incident response member within F5’s Office of the CISO. This role supports coordinated response efforts across global teams, helps maintain incident command structure during active events, and ensures consistent communication, documentation, and resolution tracking across F5’s infrastructure, applications, products, and customer-facing environments. The ideal candidate brings hands‑on incident response experience, sound judgment under pressure, strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to support complex incidents from detection through post‑incident review.

This role contributes to F5’s incident response execution and operational maturity across corporate, cloud, product, and customer‑facing environments, including F5 BIG‑IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud, WAAP, API security, DDoS, bot defense, hybrid multicloud, and emerging AI‑enabled services. The role supports high‑severity cyber and product security incident response, cyber crisis coordination, workstream tracking, stakeholder communications, and post‑incident improvement. The successful candidate will partner across F5 security, product engineering, SRE, cloud operations, legal, privacy, communications, customer support, and business stakeholders to help drive timely, coordinated response outcomes across regions and time zones.

• Incident Response Program Support
  Support F5’s incident response strategy, governance, standards, playbooks, severity model, metrics, and executive reporting through disciplined execution and clear documentation. Participate in end‑to‑end response for cyber and product security incidents, including preparation, detection, containment, recovery, customer impact assessment, and post‑incident learning. Coordinate assigned incident work streams, track decisions and actions, engage cross‑company and regional stakeholders, and maintain response visibility through resolution.
• AI Security and Incident Response Build incident response capabilities for AI‑enabled applications, models, agents, inference traffic, AI gateways, APIs, and runtime data paths secured or delivered through F5 technologies. Collaborate with AI engineering, product security, security research, and governance teams on AI incident classification, response procedures, customer notification inputs, and recovery frameworks. Contribute to AI‑assisted security operations, observability, automated triage, and responsible response automation across F5 environments.
• Security Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement Contribute to security initiatives across incident response, product security, threat intelligence, application security, detection engineering, and resilience. Coordinate security, engineering, SRE, product, legal, compliance, privacy, communications, customer support, and business teams during readiness and response activities. Prepare clear incident updates, technical summaries, and operational inputs for leadership reviews, audits, customer escalations, partner discussions, and executive communications.
• Operational Excellence Track KPIs and KRIs for response effectiveness, vulnerability readiness, customer‑impact reduction, and product security resilience. Support tabletop exercises, cyber simulations, product security drills, and customer‑impact response assessments. Help improve MTTD, MTTC, MTTR, observability, fleet visibility, automation, and response orchestration…