Security Observability Engineer II

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

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, implement, and maintain robust monitoring and auditing across the distributed cloud platform. You will partner with architects, security engineers, operations, and compliance to define what needs to be monitored, and you will tune alerts to optimize detection, response, and forensics capabilities.

As part of a global team, you will work with CI/CD pipelines to embed security controls, perform vulnerability scanning, and leverage

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required due to FedRAMP compliance obligations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related field.
• 3+ years hands-on security engineering, monitoring or related roles.
• Experience with logging, monitoring and SIEM/dashboarding tools listed in the job post.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate, operate, and maintain security monitoring and auditing capabilities.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, SREs, and stakeholders to define what to monitor.
• Tune alerts to balance coverage and noise reduction across the platform.
• Drive DevSecOps by embedding security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AI-assisted security tooling to accelerate investigations.

Skills

Security engineering experience

Logging/Monitoring/SIEM

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure/GCP

Programming Python Shell Go

Kubernetes/OpenStack

MITRE ATT&CK/CKC familiarity

Security certifications (e.g., CISSP)

F5 product familiarity

FedRAMP experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Sumo Logic

Grafana

CrowdStrike

DataDog

Splunk

Thycotic

Job description

F5 Networks, Inc is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, implement, and maintain robust monitoring and auditing across the distributed cloud platform. You will partner with architects, security engineers, operations, and compliance to define what needs to be monitored, and you will tune alerts to optimize detection, response, and forensics capabilities.

As part of a global team, you will work with CI/CD pipelines to embed security controls, perform vulnerability scanning, and leverage