Security Engineer II – Monitoring & SIEM Expert

F5 Networks, Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer II for the Distributed Cloud to design, integrate, operate, and maintain robust security monitoring and auditing across our global platform.

You will implement metrics, logs, and alerts to improve visibility, incident response, and forensic readiness. You will collaborate with architects, SREs, compliance, and security teams, drive DevSecOps practices in CI/CD, and apply threat detection and AI-assisted tooling to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen due to FedRAMP obligations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years hands-on security engineering, monitoring, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dashboarding tools and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate, operate, and maintain security monitoring and auditing capabilities across the global platform.
• Tune alerts and thresholds to reduce noise while maintaining strong coverage for security events.
• Drive DevSecOps practices by integrating security controls, automated compliance checks, and threat detection into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with software architects, security engineers, operations/SRE teams, and compliance experts.

Skills

Security engineering

Logging/monitoring

Cloud platforms

Programming

MITRE ATT&CK

Kubernetes/OpenStack

Education

BS in CS

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Sumo Logic

Grafana

CrowdStrike

DataDog

Splunk

Thycotic

Job description

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer II for the Distributed Cloud to design, integrate, operate, and maintain robust security monitoring and auditing across our global platform.

You will implement metrics, logs, and alerts to improve visibility, incident response, and forensic readiness. You will collaborate with architects, SREs, compliance, and security teams, drive DevSecOps practices in CI/CD, and apply threat detection and AI-assisted tooling to improve efficiency.