Solutions Engineer III - Distributed Cloud

F5; Village of Old Field (NY); On-site; USD 123,500 - 185,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Family-friendly benefits

Tuition assistance

Culture of giving back

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer in the Village of Old Field, New York, to support sales through technical expertise in F5 Distributed Cloud solutions. This position involves understanding customer needs and effectively positioning F5 technologies. The role may also require up to 50% travel, offering strong career growth opportunities and family-friendly benefits.

Candidates should have 5+ years experience and a BS/BA or equivalent work experience, with familiarity in secure cloud architectures and CI/CD automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related industry experience.
• Familiarity with F5 or similar industry solution deployment is a plus.
• Relevant certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support the sales team with technical skills and knowledge around F5 solutions.
• Articulate the F5 product strategy and value proposition.
• Drive the sales process and provide customer service.

Skills

Secure cloud architectures

CI/CD automation

Multi-cloud design

Cloud instrumentation tools

Software development in Go

Monitoring tools

Education

BS/BA or equivalent work experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

GitOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Company

F5 technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe. We give the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app, anywhere—with confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment, helping each other succeed. We take great pride in being trusted advisers to our customers, offering the best solutions for their interests.

About the Role

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role focused on customers and partners, part of the XC Specialist sales organization. The SE’s primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 Distributed Cloud solutions. The high‑level objective is to achieve the allocated sales target and sell F5 Distributed Cloud solutions to address customer business needs in partnership with the Specialist Sales Account Manager. From the customer’s perspective, the SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges and proposes effective solutions.

What you’ll do

• Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging, and positioning of F5 Distributed Cloud’s value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives.
• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proofs of concept via various mediums: in‑person, virtual presentations, white boarding, 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 throughout the customer life cycle.
• Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, and offer and seek expertise as needed for various opportunities.

How you’ll do it

• Experience in secure cloud architectures in AWS, Azure, GCP or other public clouds.
• CI/CD experience (automate build and test pipelines with GitOps, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience with multi‑cloud design.
• Experience with cloud instrumentation and configuration management tools for deployment such as GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, and Grafana.
• Experience in software development in Go, Python, Ruby, scripting languages.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of related industry experience.
• BS/BA or equivalent work experience.
• Familiarity/experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment (a plus).
• Relevant certifications (a plus).

What you’ll get

• The role may require up to 50% travel and working across time zones.
• Self‑driven role with career growth and development opportunities.
• Competitive pay, family‑friendly benefits, and perks.
• Tuition assistance for professional development.
• Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups.

Salary: $123,500.00 – $185,300.00 per year. Incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits are additional and vary by role. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Contact [e-mail] for accommodations.