Solution Architect EMEA

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

Job summary

A leading technology firm is looking for a Solutions Architect based in Dubai, UAE. The role involves providing technical leadership and collaborating with Sales teams to implement application delivery solutions. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in application delivery, automation, and security solutions, with strong communication skills and the ability to mentor others. This position offers competitive pay and family-friendly benefits, along with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Family-friendly benefits

Tuition assistance

Culture of diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of API gateways and experience with NGINX is a bonus.
• Public speaking skills for events and conferences are beneficial.
• Experience publishing whitepapers and solution articles.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural guidance for F5 solutions.
• Mentor and enable Solution Engineering community.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of application delivery

Experience with automation principles

Strong knowledge of app delivery and networking

Solid knowledge of micro-services and Kubernetes

Knowledge of security solutions

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Architectural problem solving skills

8 years of related industry experience

BS/BA or equivalent work experience

Education

Relevant certifications

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

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!

About our job descriptions

When applying for any of the roles in F5 please note our ideal candidate is not necessarily someone who meets all the posted requirements. In fact this is just a representative of how we know the job has been done in the past. We would love to talk to you even if you don’t check all the boxes here but believe you bring your own unique capabilities that can be utilized to ensure the success of the role and the organization.

The Solutions Architect Job Overview

The Solutions Architect (SA) position is a technical leadership role supporting the Sales region. Architects are typically assigned a technology area to focus on such as ADC, Infrastructure, Modern Apps, Security, Service Provider. This role is primarily focused on ADC infrastructure and modern apps (including AI architectures) and with a focus on automation. The ideal candidate has a solid ADC and modern apps background with an understanding on how application security solutions are integrated and automated into these traditional and modern architectures. The SA’s primary function is to work collaboratively with Sales teams identifying appropriate F5 solutions to address customers business needs. They provide technical expertise and business understanding across specific or multiple industries. They champion our customers requirements and ensure they are understood across other teams within F5 such as Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Product Development. The SA also shares knowledge and educates the solution engineering team internally and externally via whitepapers, trainings, demos, blogs, tech‑tips, presentations etc. To be effective an SA needs to blend strong business acumen with excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the ecosystem that we work needs to be an authority in his/her field of expertise and act as a trusted advisor towards our customers.

What you’ll do

• Work on strategic opportunities within the assigned region/area of specialization and provide architectural guidance and technical expertise for the entire 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 (experience with NGINX is a bonus)
• Solid knowledge of API gateways (experience with NGINX is a bonus)
• 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

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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).

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 .