Senior Solutions Engineer - Application

F5; Arizona; Remote; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer to join the sales organization in North America. The role centers on delivering technical expertise to customers and partners, designing solutions, and supporting the sales team through demonstrations and POCs.

You will map opportunities, engage the Technical Decision Maker, and drive the sales process with the Account Manager, ensuring excellent customer service across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in CS, EE, MIS or equivalent experience.
• Experience with F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp or similar.
• Knowledge of web servers and web applications.
• Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience in DevOps and with enterprise customers in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Support the sales team with technical skills and product knowledge.
• Deliver solution designs, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts (POCs).
• Identify technical decision makers and secure sponsorship.
• Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager.
• Provide world-class customer service throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Linux/UNIX

Networking

Web servers

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Financial services

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MIS or equivalent

Tools

F5

Citrix

Riverbed

Kemp

Job description

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the sales organization. The SE’s primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 solutions to our customers. Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

The high-level objective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling relevant F5 solutions and products in North America. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Our solutions bridge the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer.

Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging and positioning F5’s value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives. Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proof of concepts by various mediums – in-person/virtual presentations, white boards etc. Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure. Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship. Consistently provide world‑class customer service through the customer life cycle.

Application acceleration

• Application request routing
• Web serving
• Dynamic content caching

• BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS, EE, MIS) or equivalent experience
• F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp, or others
• Knowledge of web servers, and web applications
• Skills in Linux-/UNIX-based systems
• Skills in networking technologies, and Internet security products and services
• Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience in DevOps environment (understand tools, processes, culture)
• Experience working with enterprise customers in the financial services space
• LI-DJ1 #LI-Remote

The annual base pay for this position is: $133,600.00 - $200,400.00 F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job.