Sr. Security Engineer

F5 Networks, Inc; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust monitoring and auditing systems for the Distributed Cloud platform. You will contribute to visibility, alerting, and forensics across a global, scalable environment.

You will lead vulnerability management efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive DevSecOps practices for secure software delivery. This role requires strong cloud and container expertise and a proactive security mindset.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required for this role.
• BS degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• 8+ years of security operations and monitoring experience.
• Experience with DevSecOps and vulnerability assessment/management.
• Experience with logging/monitoring/SIEM and dashboards like AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, security defenders, Operations, SRE, compliance, and leadership to define monitored events and audits.
• Continuously hunt for metrics to improve monitoring, alerts, and forensics for the platform.
• Contribute to vulnerability management and DevSecOps strategies.
• Participate in Incident Response Plan execution and provide information for response and forensics.

Skills

Security operations

DevSecOps

Logging & monitoring

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes & containers

Programming/scripting

Incident response

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Sumo Logic

Grafana

CrowdStrike

DataDog

Splunk

Thycotic

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.

Everything we do centers around people. 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.

About the position:

F5 Distributed Cloud is looking for a Sr.Security Engineer with experience in building, integrating, operating, and maintaining robust security monitoring and auditing systems. F5’s SDC platform provides a global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications. In this position, you will build and maintain monitoring and audit systems across the platform that provide necessary visibility and alerting to effectively defend the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Be Kind.
• Collaborate with software architects, security defenders, Operations, SRE, compliance experts, and business leaders to understand the logical boundaries of the systems and identify the events to monitor, audits to maintain, alerts to tweak, as well as systems to integrate with.
• You will continuously hunt for areas and metrics to be added into monitoring systems for better operational visibility, incident response capability, availability, and forensics capability of the overall platform.
• You will work on vulnerability management and DevSecOps strategies.
• You will participate in executing the Incident Response Plan for the platform and be responsible for providing necessary information during response and forensics.

Minimum qualifications:

• US Citizenship
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of security operation and monitoring experience.
• Experience with DevSecOps and vulnerabilitiy assessment and management.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, SIEM, dashboarding tools like AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic, etc.
• Working knowledge of at least one Cloud Computing platform (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.)
• Good Understanding of Kubernetes and Containers and deploying apps in containers.
• Hands on experience with computer programming languages and/or scripting languages such as Python, Java, Shell
• Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
• Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
• Self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take on new challenges in an enthusiastic manner

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $195,800.00 - $293,800.00

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. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

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, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [e-mail].