Senior Solutions Engineer - Application

F5; California City (CA); Remote; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer to join our sales organization in North America. The SE will blend sales and technical acumen to support customers and partners, delivering presentations, designs, and proofs of concepts across cloud, security, and application services.

The role requires strong knowledge of web servers, Linux/Unix, networking, and DevOps, with experience in financial services accounts. Base pay ranges from $163,400 to $245,000 annually, with potential incentives and RSUs

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
• Skills in Linux/UNIX-based systems
• Skills in networking technologies and internet security products/services
• Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience in DevOps environments
• Experience with enterprise customers in financial services space

Responsibilities

• Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging and value proposition to customers and align to business objectives
• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, demos, and proofs of concepts
• Determine opportunity viability and map out organizational structure
• Drive the sales process with the Account Manager, identifying the Technical Decision Maker and securing technical validation and sponsorship
• Deliver world-class customer service throughout the lifecycle
• Support application acceleration including routing, web serving, and dynamic content caching

Skills

Networking

Linux/UNIX

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Financial services experience

Sales support

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MIS

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: $163,400.00 - $245,000.00 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.