Senior Security Engineer - Cloud & Zero-Trust Automation

F5; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Security Engineer to execute strategic processes and implement technical solutions to support our information security program and address day‑to‑day challenges in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

The role focuses on building security controls, assessing risks, and leveraging cloud services across Azure, AWS, and GCP to automate security activities. You will collaborate with Architecture, SRE, and Operations to uphold security standards and protect enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-availability enterprise production environments.
• Scripting languages: Go, Python, Ruby, Rust, etc.
• Experience automating security testing and reporting.
• Knowledge of security, networking, cloud security, and firewall architecture.
• Ability to learn new technologies and innovate.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with Big-IP, Azure, AWS, GCP, Vault, Palo Alto, Qualys.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement new security controls, processes and tools.
• Identify organizational risks to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and determine mitigations.
• Leverage Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud services to automate and improve security activities.
• Develop or implement security tools to detect, prevent and analyze threats.
• Perform security assessments on cloud and on‑premise systems including threat modeling.
• Review changes to services, apps, and networks for security impacts.
• Collaborate with Architecture, SRE and Operations to implement security standards.
• Stay updated on security best practices and design principles.
• Review enterprise environments for security/compliance impacts.
• Assist in incident detection and response efforts.
• Implement zero‑trust patterns with cloud-agnostic tools.
• Implement and manage enterprise security tooling.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability assessment

Scripting (Go/Python)

Incident response

Zero-trust architecture

High availability

Communication

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Hashicorp Vault

Palo Alto

Qualys

CentOS

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

F5 is seeking a Security Engineer to execute strategic processes and implement technical solutions to support our information security program and address day‑to‑day challenges in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

The role focuses on building security controls, assessing risks, and leveraging cloud services across Azure, AWS, and GCP to automate security activities. You will collaborate with Architecture, SRE, and Operations to uphold security standards and protect enterprise environments.