Security Engineer II: AI-Driven Monitoring & Incident Response

ffive; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Distributed Cloud in Reston, Virginia is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, operate, and maintain robust security monitoring and auditing capabilities across our global platform. You will help deploy scalable observability, detection, and incident response mechanisms to protect the environment and support forensics.

The role requires 3+ years in security operations, a Bachelor's degree, and hands-on experience with SIEMs and cloud telemetry. U.S.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in security operations, monitoring, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Hands-on with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dashboarding tools.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate, operate, and maintain security monitoring across the platform.
• Identify metrics, logs, and alerts to improve visibility and incident response.
• Integrate logging pipelines with SIEM/EDR and dashboards; tune alerts.
• Leverage AI-assisted security tooling to improve efficiency and investigations.
• Participate in on-call/weekend shifts as needed.

Skills

Security operations

Monitoring tools

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Sumo Logic

Grafana

CrowdStrike

DataDog

Splunk

Thycotic

Job description

F5 Distributed Cloud in Reston, Virginia is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, operate, and maintain robust security monitoring and auditing capabilities across our global platform. You will help deploy scalable observability, detection, and incident response mechanisms to protect the environment and support forensics.

The role requires 3+ years in security operations, a Bachelor's degree, and hands-on experience with SIEMs and cloud telemetry. U.S.