Solutions Architect

F5; Paris; Hybride; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading cybersecurity company is looking for an Enterprise Architect to support sales teams by providing architectural guidance and technical expertise. You will help identify customer solutions across the F5 portfolio and drive discussions with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in the tech industry, strong communication skills in English and French, and knowledge of modern application delivery. This role offers flexibility in working arrangements, and business travel may be required.

Prestations

Competitive pay

Family-friendly benefits

Tuition assistance for professional development

Culture of giving back

Strong diversity and inclusion interest groups

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related industry experience is required.
• Experience with publishing whitepapers and technical presentations.
• Relevant certifications are a plus.

Responsabilités

• Provide architectural guidance and technical expertise for F5's portfolio.
• Collaborate with other team members to identify customer pain points.
• Act as a liaison between Sales, Marketing, and Product Development.

Connaissances

Application delivery in hardware, software and SaaS architectures

App delivery and networking in cloud platforms

Micro-services architectures, containers, and Kubernetes

Application security solutions

Automation principles and tools like Ansible and Terraform

Native French speaker

Strong English communication skills

Public speaking skills

Architectural problem-solving skills

Formation

BS / BA or equivalent work experience

Outils

Kubernetes

DevOps methodologies

Description du poste

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 world’s 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. Infact 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 Enterprise Architect Job Overview

The Enterprise Architect (EA) role is part of the Solutions Architect (SA) job family. 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 “eco-system” that we work in. He / she needs to be an authority in his / her field of expertise and act as a trusted advisor towards our customers.

While the traditional Solution Architect is focused ongoing deep on a specific technology, the Enterprise Architect role is meant to be much broader and wider. The primary role of the traditional SA is to provide technical expertise in his specific domain while the EA is driving architectural discussions with our customers, helping account teams develop opportunities to broaden our coverage in their accounts with our full portfolio of solutions.

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 customer’s 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 in your region

What you’ll bring: Technical skills

• Application delivery (ADC, DNS, CDN) in hardware, software and SaaS based architectures
• App delivery and networking in the most popular private and public cloud platforms
• Micro-services architectures, containers and Kubernetes platforms
• Kubernetes ingress and Gateway API concepts

API Gateways

• Application security solutions such as web application firewall, DDOS, bot mitigation, API security, identity & access management

AI security (OWASP LLM top 10)

Automation principles and tools (Ansible, Terraform, Git, Cloud templates, declarative API, DevOps methodologies, infrastructure-as-code, security-as-code,… )

Other skills

• Native French speaker
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Public speaking skills (events, conferences)
• Experience with publishing whitepapers / solution articles, blogs, tech tips etc
• Experience with product demonstrations, value propositions and technical presentations to technical and business leads
• 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 outcomes

Experience & Certifications

• 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 Paris, France 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 RVP, Solution Architect 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.