Solutions Engineer lll (MN)

F5; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer in Saint Paul, MN to blend sales and technical expertise, supporting customers and partners with F5 technologies across multi-cloud environments.

You will engage with enterprise customers, map organizations, deliver demos and PoCs, and help close opportunities by securing technical validation and sponsorship from decision makers. Remote-friendly, US-wide scope.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience required.
• Knowledge of web servers and web applications.
• Experience with cloud providers and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, and PoCs.
• Determine viability of opportunities and map out organizational structure.
• Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, securing technical validation and sponsorship.
• Consistently provide world-class customer service through the customer life cycle.
• Application acceleration, routing, web serving, and dynamic content caching.

Skills

Web servers

Linux/UNIX

Networking

Cloud providers

DevOps

Enterprise customers

Technical sales support

Education

BS/BA in CS/EE/MIS or equivalent

Tools

F5

Citrix

Riverbed

Kemp

Other load balancers

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 to the largest Service Providers in North America, in partnership with the Sales Director and Service Provider Team. From our customer(s) perspective, the SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges and is able to propose effective solutions to mitigate their concerns/offer gainful solutions.

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: $104,200.00 - $156,400.00. 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.

F5 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.