Security 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

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, integrate, operate, and maintain robust security monitoring and auditing capabilities across our global platform. The F5 SDC platform delivers a scalable and secure way to deploy applications worldwide. In this role, you will develop and support monitoring and audit solutions that provide the visibility, detection, and alerting needed to protect the platform and enable effective incident response and forensics.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with software architects, security engineers, operations/SRE teams, compliance experts, and business stakeholders to understand system boundaries and define what needs to be monitored and audited.
• Identify, implement, and continuously refine metrics, logs, and alerts to improve operational visibility, incident detection, response effectiveness, availability, and forensic readiness across the platform.
• Integrate logging and monitoring pipelines with existing tools and platforms (e.g., SIEM, EDR, dashboards) and ensure data quality, coverage, and usability.
• Respond to alerts, tune alerts and thresholds to reduce noise while maintaining strong coverage for security and operational events.
• Leverage Generative AI and AI-assisted security tooling to improve operational efficiency, accelerate investigations, automate repetitive tasks, enhance threat detection, and support security engineering workflows.
• Working on-call and weekend shifts might be needed as per business need.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship Required: Due to FedRAMP compliance obligations, this role requires the candidate to be a U.S. citizen.
• Be Kind
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, monitoring, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Practical experience with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dashboarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic, or similar.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong understanding of log handling and telemetry pipelines, including log collection, aggregation, integration with downstream systems, and alert configuration/tuning based on policies and thresholds.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools.
• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and/or the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain is a plus.
• Solid understanding of the security and operational challenges in large-scale, distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of cloud orchestration and container platforms such as Kubernetes and/or OpenStack.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Security+, GSEC, CISSP) are preferred.
• Familiarity with F5 products and services (e.g., BIG-IP, NGINX, WAF, DDoS, application security solutions) is a plus.

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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $104,700.00 - $157,100.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits . F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from 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 [e-mail].