AI-Driven Security Monitoring Engineer II

F5; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, integrate, operate, and maintain robust monitoring and auditing for its global platform. You will develop solutions to provide visibility, detection, and alerting for security events and forensics.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's in CS or related field, 3+ years in security operations, and hands-on experience with SIEMs and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). On-call work may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience in security operations, monitoring, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Hands-on with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dashboarding tools.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform.
• Familiarity with logs, telemetry pipelines, and alert tuning.
• Knowledge of IaC tools and cloud orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate, operate, and maintain monitoring and auditing capabilities across our platform.
• Collaborate with architects, security engineers, and SREs to define what to monitor and audit.
• Tune alerts to balance coverage and reduce noise for security events.
• Integrate logging pipelines with SIEM, dashboards, and downstream systems.
• Leverage AI-assisted security tooling to improve investigations and automation.
• Occasional on-call and weekend shifts may be required.

Skills

Security operations

Monitoring

SIEM

Cloud platforms

Incident response

Threat detection

AI tooling

Logging & telemetry

OpenStack/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Sumo Logic

Grafana

CrowdStrike

DataDog

Splunk

Thycotic

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Job description

F5 is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, integrate, operate, and maintain robust monitoring and auditing for its global platform. You will develop solutions to provide visibility, detection, and alerting for security events and forensics.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's in CS or related field, 3+ years in security operations, and hands-on experience with SIEMs and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). On-call work may be required.