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.

Role Overview:

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a hands-on technical sales role. The SE’s primary responsibility is to provide technical expertise and knowledge of F5 solutions, related technologies and competitive offerings to colleagues, customers and channel partners within a given market segment.

The high-level objective is to achieve allocated sales targets in partnership with one or more Sales Account Managers, by specifying relevant F5 solutions and products that meet our customers’ business needs. The SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands our customers’ technical and business challenges and can propose effective solutions to mitigate their concerns and offer gainful solutions.

To be effective, an SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge of F5 products and the eco-system that we work in. Naturally, we provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills.

Sounds interesting? Read on…

What you’ll do:

Articulate F5’s solution strategies, messaging and position F5’s value proposition to meet customer business objectives.
Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, demonstrations and proofs of concept utilizing various delivery media.
Determine the viability of opportunities and map out organizational structures.
Drive the sales process with Account Manager(s), by identifying technical decision makers, 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 and updates, offer, and seek expertise.

How you’ll do it:

Expertise in solution designs, performance, and sizing for large scale environments
Proficiency in containerized and microservices architectures, orchestration solutions (eg: OpenShift, Kubernetes)
Experience in secure multi-cloud architectures
Understanding of application security vulnerabilities, threats, and controls
Proficient in one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Golang, etc.)

What you’ll bring:

Expert technical communication, presentation, and account management skills
Demonstrated leadership capabilities and experience in leading initiatives,
Advanced F5 solution knowledge and / or relevant experience in competitive offerings
8 + years of related industry experience
Relevant certifications
BS/BA or equivalent work experience

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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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

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. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

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