Senior Solutions Architect: Cloud, WAAP & AI Security

F5; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to serve as a trusted technical architect for Fortune 500 enterprises and fast‑growing digital innovators. Working with the Sales Director and Enterprise/Commercial teams across North America, you will design, champion, and sell modern F5 application delivery and security solutions across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to achieve allocated sales targets.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and non‑linear paths.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in pre-sales engineering or equivalent
• Experience with large enterprise accounts in regulated industries
• Ability to translate technical capabilities to business value
• Experience with edge cloud/WAAP, API gateways or cloud networking
• Familiarity with securing AI workloads and AI inference endpoints

Responsibilities

• Partner with CISOs and architects to translate goals into architecture
• Evolve enterprise customers' BIG-IP foundations to hybrid architectures
• Lead discovery, design validations, and demos across WAAP, DDoS, Zero Trust
• Support cloud-native and AI transformation in traffic management and pipelines
• Demonstrate IaC and CI/CD workflows to align NetOps, SecOps, DevOps
• Lead technical evaluation and validate differentiators in competitive deals
• Collaborate with Product/Engineering to inform roadmaps

Skills

8+ years in pre-sales / technical

Enterprise accounts

Architectural storytelling

Cloud experience

AI curiosity

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MSIM

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

NGINX

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

F5 in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to serve as a trusted technical architect for Fortune 500 enterprises and fast‑growing digital innovators. Working with the Sales Director and Enterprise/Commercial teams across North America, you will design, champion, and sell modern F5 application delivery and security solutions across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to achieve allocated sales targets.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and non‑linear paths.