Solution Architect EMEA

F5 Networks; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm based in Dubai is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect. The role requires advanced knowledge in application delivery and security solutions, along with a passion for mentoring and collaboration. Candidates should have a strong business mindset, excellent communication skills, and at least 8 years of relevant industry experience. This position offers competitive pay and a culture centered around diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Family friendly benefits

Tuition assistance

Qualifications

• 8 years of related industry experience required.
• Experience with automation principles and tools.
• Solid knowledge of cloud-native ADC and Kubernetes ingress.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural guidance for F5 portfolio.
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify customer needs.
• Mentor Solution Engineering community.

Skills

Application delivery knowledge

Automated principles and tools

Knowledge of app delivery

Microservices and Kubernetes

API gateways knowledge

Public speaking skills

Architectural problem solving

Strong business mindset

English communication skills

Education

BS/BA or equivalent work experience

Job description

Solutions Architect Job 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.

About the Company

F5 technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe. We give the worlds largest businesses service providers governments and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app anywhere with confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment helping each other succeed. We take great pride in being trusted advisers to our customers offering the best solutions for their interests. If our mission and culture excite you we would love to talk to you!

Responsibilities

• Work on strategic opportunities within the assigned region/area of specialization and provide architectural guidance and technical expertise for the F5 portfolio. The goal is to listen carefully to the customers requirements and then position the best possible solution within the F5 portfolio addressing those requirements.
• Play the role of an evangelist and thought leader in the area of technical specialization.
• Collaborate with other solution architects and internal business leaders to share ideas, identify common customer pain points and trends, and identify appropriate F5 solutions.
• Work closely with our internal product management and service teams and provide technical and business understanding for product launches and updates that would be beneficial for our customers.
• Provide mentorship as needed to the Solution Engineering community in the organization and make sure they are enabled and equipped to position our solutions correctly.

How you'll do it

• Playing the role of an evangelist thought leader mentor in the field of security.
• Act as a liaison between Sales and Marketing, Product Management, Product Development.
• Working with strategic business opportunities across the EMEA region.

What you'll bring

• Advanced knowledge of application delivery (ADC DNS) in hardware software and SaaS-based architectures.
• Experience with automation principles and tools (Ansible Terraform Git Cloud templates declarative API DevOps methodologies, infrastructure-as-code/security-as-code).
• Strong knowledge of app delivery and networking in the most popular private and public cloud platforms.
• Solid knowledge of micro-services, containers and Kubernetes platforms.
• Solid knowledge of cloud-native ADC Kubernetes ingress and Gateway API concepts.
• Solid knowledge of API gateways.
• Knowledge of security solutions with specific focus on application security is highly desired (web application firewall, DDOS, bot mitigation, API security, identity & access management, anti-fraud, client-side security, LLM security).
• Deep knowledge of F5 Solutions.
• Public speaking skills (events conferences).
• Experience with publishing whitepapers/solution articles blogs tech-tips etc.
• Extensive experience making product demonstrations, value propositions and technical presentations to technical and business leads.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability to adapt your message to your audience.
• Architectural problem solving skills.
• Self-learner and curious in new technologies.
• Strong business mindset translating technical features into business values.
• 8 years of related industry experience.
• Relevant certifications a plus.
• BS/BA or equivalent work experience.

What you'll get

• This role is based out of Dubai UAE or Riyadh KSA with flexibility to work from home as well.
• While we encourage remote/virtual meetings the nature of the role could require travel up to 30% of the time.
• This is a self-driven role so career growth and development is available at every stage of your career.
• The position reports to the Director, Solution Architects EMEA.
• Competitive pay, family friendly benefits and cool perks.
• Tuition assistance for professional development.
• Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups.

Job Description Note

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.

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 .