Senior Solutions Engineer - Cloud, Security & AI

F5; Pennsylvania; Remote; 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, designing and selling multi-cloud application delivery and security solutions. You will partner with Sales Directors and account teams to drive strategic outcomes across hybrid, edge, and cloud environments.

Applicants bring deep pre-sales experience, enterprise track records, and a curiosity for AI transformation, with strong coding and automation skills to illustrate value through

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in pre-sales engineering, systems engineering, technical consulting, or an equivalent customer-aligned systems/solutions architecture role.
• Proven experience supporting and building trust with large enterprise accounts, particularly within high-compliance or highly regulated industries (such as financial services).
• Architectural storytelling: Ability to connect deep technical capabilities to real-world business outcomes, building authentic trust with hands‑on engineers and executive leaders alike.
• Cloud experience: Prior experience with modern edge cloud/WAAP platforms, API gateway technologies, or hyperscaler cloud networking practices.
• AI curiosity: Familiarity with securing or optimizing emerging AI workloads, LLM inference endpoints, or modern data services.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Technical Partnership: Partner with CISOs, Cloud Architects, and Platform Engineering leaders, translating complex business goals into resilient, scalable architectural blueprints.
• Guide Customer Modernization Journeys: Empower our established enterprise customer base to evolve their trusted BIG-IP foundations into agile, modern hybrid architectures—seamlessly bridging established data-center infrastructure with distributed cloud and containerized environments.
• Architect Modern App Delivery & Security: Lead technical discovery, design validations, and solution demonstrations across Web Application & API Protection (WAAP), proactive Bot Defense, DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust access.
• Enable Cloud-Native & AI Transformation: Help organizations modernize traffic management, Kubernetes ingress patterns, and emerging AI inference pipelines and AI Gateway architectures.
• Bridge the Gap between Security and Developer Velocity: Demonstrate automated, declarative workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code (such as Terraform or Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines, bringing NetOps, SecOps, and DevOps together.
• Drive Technical Alignment: Lead the technical evaluation process with clarity and empathy, identifying customer priorities and validating F5’s differentiated value in competitive environments.
• Collaborate & Influence: Share insights from customer engagements with F5’s Product and Engineering teams to help shape our distributed cloud and security roadmaps.

Skills

Pre-Sales / Technical Consulting

Enterprise Track Record

Architectural Storytelling

Cloud Experience

AI Curiosity

Education

BS/BA degree in a relevant technical field

Tools

Kubernetes (K8)

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

F5 is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to act as a trusted technical architect for Fortune 500 enterprises, designing and selling multi-cloud application delivery and security solutions. You will partner with Sales Directors and account teams to drive strategic outcomes across hybrid, edge, and cloud environments.

Applicants bring deep pre-sales experience, enterprise track records, and a curiosity for AI transformation, with strong coding and automation skills to illustrate value through