Senior Solutions Engineer (NY/NJ/PA)
F5 Networks3 days ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$163k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with CISOs, cloud architects, and platform engineering leaders to create resilient, scalable architectural blueprints.
- Guide enterprise customers from BIG-IP foundations toward modern hybrid, distributed cloud, and containerized architectures.
- Lead technical discovery, design validation, solution demonstrations, and evaluations for WAAP, bot defense, DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust solutions.
- Advise customers on traffic management, Kubernetes ingress, AI inference pipelines, and AI Gateway architectures.
- Demonstrate declarative infrastructure automation using Terraform or Ansible and integrate solutions with CI/CD workflows.
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to align technical solutions with customer priorities and influence product roadmaps.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in pre-sales engineering, systems engineering, technical consulting, or equivalent customer-aligned systems or solutions architecture.
- Experience supporting large enterprise accounts, especially in highly regulated or high-compliance industries.
- Experience with modern edge cloud or WAAP platforms, API gateways, or hyperscaler cloud networking.
- Knowledge of web application security, API protection, OWASP API Top 10, automated threat mitigation, and Zero Trust principles.
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, ingress controllers, API gateways, or service mesh technologies such as NGINX.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and hybrid connectivity patterns.
- Experience with Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, or comparable automation and scripting tools.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise ADCs, traffic management, security infrastructure, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, HTTP/2, SSL/TLS, DNS, and Unix/Linux systems.
- Familiarity with securing or optimizing AI workloads, LLM inference endpoints, or modern data services.
- BS/BA in a relevant technical field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Management Information Systems, or equivalent practical industry experience.
- Industry certifications such as Kubernetes CKA, cloud solutions architect certifications, or CISSP are preferred but not required.
Benefits
- The role is intended for candidates located in New York, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania and is listed as remote.
- Eligible employees may receive incentive compensation, bonuses, restricted stock units, and benefits.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About F5 Networks
F5, Inc. builds application delivery and security products for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning on‑premises, cloud, and edge environments. It sells software, hardware appliances, and SaaS subscriptions for load balancing, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, and traffic management, with support services. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the public company (NASDAQ: FFIV) expanded its portfolio through acquisitions including NGINX and Shape Security.