Solutions Engineer lll

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with a focus on customers and partners and is part of the sales organization. The SE's primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 solutions to our customers. To be effective, an SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the "eco-system" that we work in.

Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

• 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 board set 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
• Web serving
• Dynamic content caching
• SSL and compression offload
• BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS, EE, MIS) or equivalent experience
• Experience as a Sales Engineer
• 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.)
• 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 in the financial services space
• 5+ years of experience is required

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $ - $.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5's differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment 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 local, state, or federal laws.

This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job.

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