Senior Solutions Architect: Cloud, Security & AI (PreSales)

F5; Salem (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 champion modern application delivery and security solutions across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to meet sales targets.

You’ll collaborate with Sales, Enterprise Accounts, and Product teams, guiding customers through technical discovery, architecture validation, and demonstrations while bridging data-center and cloud/containers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in pre-sales engineering or equivalent role.
• Experience with large enterprise accounts, esp. regulated industries.
• Ability to translate complex goals into architectural blueprints.
• Experience with edge cloud/WAAP platforms, API gateways, or hyperscaler networking.
• Familiarity with securing AI workloads and AI inference pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Partner with CISOs, Cloud Architects, and Platform Engineering leaders to translate business goals into scalable architectural blueprints.
• Guide modernization journeys from BIG-IP foundations to hybrid/cloud architectures.
• Lead technical discovery, design validations, and demos across WAAP, Bot Defense, DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust.
• Enable cloud-native & AI transformation including Kubernetes ingress patterns.
• Bridge security and developer velocity with IaC (Terraform/Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Pre-Sales / Technical Consulting

Enterprise track record

Architectural storytelling

Cloud experience

AI curiosity

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MIS

Tools

Kubernetes (K8)

OpenShift

NGINX

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Python

Go

Bash

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 champion modern application delivery and security solutions across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to meet sales targets.

You’ll collaborate with Sales, Enterprise Accounts, and Product teams, guiding customers through technical discovery, architecture validation, and demonstrations while bridging data-center and cloud/containers.