Partner Technical Advisor CDW- Chicago

Company Overview

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.

This role will be based in Chicago, IL.

The Partner Technical Advisor - Channel Solutions Engineer is a technical role that is part of a highly technical sales team. It supports sales and promotes customer happiness by providing pre‑sales technical solutions alignment and enablement to Channel partners to accelerate product adoption and drive successful customer outcomes. The role includes presentations, product demonstrations, assessment of potential application of F5 solutions, and development of technical account plans.

• Establish and maintain trusted advisor relationships with key channel partners.
• Develop and manage technical enablement plans for aligned channel partners.
• Articulate the F5 sales strategy, messaging, and positioning of the F5 value proposition for customer business objectives.
• Provide solution design ideas aligned with customers' desired business outcomes.
• Articulate technical and business value of F5 solutions against competitors.
• Participate in the development and support of content, e.g., presentations, use cases, etc. for customers and partners.
• Train channel partner sales and SEs to identify and qualify opportunities.
• Coordinate channel partner training activities with F5 Sales teams.
• Participate and deliver channel partner workshops and other demand generation activities.
• Support F5 channel partner sales initiatives.
• Provide channel partners consistent training on F5 solutions and competitive differentiation.
• Provide channel partners technical expertise and oversight as required.
• Proactively provide consultative support.
• Work in collaboration with Channel and Sales management to establish channel partners and to qualify partners' ability to sell F5 solutions.
• Develop and maintain a high level of technical knowledge of the F5 product set, the relevant industry, and sales aptitude.
• Travel up to 50%.

• Support F5 channel partner sales initiatives.
• Provide channel partners consistent training on F5 solutions and competitive differentiation.
• Provide channel partners technical expertise and oversight as required.
• Proactively provide consultative support.
• Work in collaboration with Channel and Sales management to establish channel partners and to qualify partners' ability to sell F5 solutions.

• Understand F5 critical issue process.
• Align channel partner with the F5 Sales and Technical Support to resolve customer issues.

• Experience working with network, security, and/or web technologies.
• 5+ years of related industry experience.
• 3+ years of pre‑sales experience preferred.
• Prior experience working with CDW (e.g., as a partner, vendor, or in a customer‑facing capacity).
• Significant experience and many years of pre‑sales expertise.
• Ability to develop Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops  mentorship including training material, standard methodologies, reusable code, etc.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Git Hub/Git Lab, Artifactory, Sonar Qube, Docker, etc.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, VMWare, Open Stack.
• Experience with container orchestrators such as Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker Swarm.
• Knowledge of application development languages like Python, Java, JavaScript.
• Knowledge of OWASP principles (preferred, but not required).
• Understanding of application security vulnerabilities, threats and controls, and web application firewall (preferred, but not required).
• BS/BA or equivalent work experience.
• In-depth industry knowledge and understanding of F5 technologies, solutions, and product offerings strongly preferred.
• Advanced…