Senior Solutions Engineer - Remote, Cloud & Security

F5; Town of King (WI); Remote; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer to join our sales team and provide deep technical expertise on F5 solutions to customers and partners. You will present, design, demonstrate, and run proofs of concept across diverse mediums, then translate technical value into business outcomes.

You will mentor sales colleagues, identify decision makers, and drive opportunities through the sales cycle while delivering world-class customer service and collaborating with internal resources.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS, EE, MIS) or equivalent experience
• Experience as a Sales Engineer
• Experience in traffic management and load-balancing technologies, e.g., F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp, or others
• Knowledge of web servers, and web applications
• Knowledge of associated protocols, e.g., TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/ SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS, etc.
• Skills in Linux-/UNIX-based systems
• Skills in networking technologies, and Internet security products and services
• Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Microservices architecture, systems, and tools experience/knowledge (K8s, Docker, etc.)
• API development and/or management
• Experience in DevOps environment (understand tools, processes, culture)
• Experience working with enterprise customers in the financial services space
• 8+ years of experience Is required

Responsibilities

• 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
• Mentor and educate sales teams on value of F5 solutions and business drivers
• 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
• Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities.

Skills

Intelligent load balancing

Application acceleration

Application request routing

Web serving

Dynamic content caching

SSL offload

Linux/UNIX

Networking

Cloud providers (GCP AWS Azure)

DevOps

Enterprise customers (finance)

8+ years experience

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MIS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes (K8s)

Docker

Citrix

Riverbed

Kemp

Job description

F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer to join our sales team and provide deep technical expertise on F5 solutions to customers and partners. You will present, design, demonstrate, and run proofs of concept across diverse mediums, then translate technical value into business outcomes.

You will mentor sales colleagues, identify decision makers, and drive opportunities through the sales cycle while delivering world-class customer service and collaborating with internal resources.