Senior Solutions Architect — Cloud, Security & AI

F5; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to act as a trusted technical architect for Fortune 500 enterprises and digital innovators. You will design and advocate modern F5 application delivery and security solutions across multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to achieve sales targets.

You will collaborate with sales and account teams, translate complex goals into scalable blueprints, and drive modernization journeys bridging data-center and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in pre‑sales engineering, solutions architecture, or equivalent.
• Experience with large enterprise accounts, especially in regulated industries.
• Ability to translate business goals into architectural blueprints.
• Experience with WAAP, API gateways, or cloud networking.
• Familiarity with securing/optimizing AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Form strategic technical partnerships with CISOs and cloud leaders.
• Guide enterprise customers from legacy to modern hybrid architectures.
• Lead technical discovery, design validation, and demonstrations across WAAP and security.
• Enable cloud-native and AI transformation in traffic management and AI gateways.
• Showcase IaC (Terraform/Ansible) and CI/CD to align NetOps, SecOps, and DevOps.
• Collaborate with Product/Engineering to shape roadmaps.

Skills

Pre-Sales Experience

Enterprise Accounts

Architectural Storytelling

Cloud Experience

AI Security Familiarity

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MIS

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

NGINX/Service Mesh

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD Tools

Job description

F5 is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to act as a trusted technical architect for Fortune 500 enterprises and digital innovators. You will design and advocate modern F5 application delivery and security solutions across multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to achieve sales targets.

You will collaborate with sales and account teams, translate complex goals into scalable blueprints, and drive modernization journeys bridging data-center and cloud infrastructure.