Solutions Engineer lll (IL)
F5 Networks3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$116k - $174k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with CISOs, cloud architects, and platform engineering leaders to create resilient, scalable architectural blueprints.
- Guide enterprise customers in modernizing BIG-IP environments across hybrid, multi-cloud, containerized, and distributed-cloud architectures.
- Lead technical discovery, design validation, solution demonstrations, and competitive evaluations for WAAP, bot defense, DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust solutions.
- Help customers modernize traffic management, Kubernetes ingress, API gateways, and AI inference or AI Gateway architectures.
- Demonstrate Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD workflows to align NetOps, SecOps, and DevOps teams.
- Share customer insights with F5 Product and Engineering teams to influence distributed-cloud and security roadmaps.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in pre-sales engineering, systems engineering, technical consulting, or an equivalent customer-aligned systems or solutions architecture role.
- Experience supporting large enterprise accounts, particularly in highly regulated or high-compliance industries.
- Ability to connect technical capabilities to business outcomes and build trust with engineers and executive stakeholders.
- Experience with edge cloud or WAAP platforms, API gateways, or hyperscaler cloud networking.
- Understanding of application security, API protection, 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 GitOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise ADCs, traffic management, security infrastructure, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, HTTP/2, SSL/TLS, DNS, and Unix/Linux systems.
- BS/BA degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical industry experience.
- Relevant certifications such as Kubernetes CKA, cloud solutions architect certifications, or CISSP are preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement is indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- Incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits may be available.
- F5 provides reasonable accommodations for candidates and maintains equal employment opportunity practices.
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.