Solutions Engineer lll

F5 • Temple City, CA

1d • $127,400 - $191,200 • Remote

About The Position

The Solutions Engineer is a sales and technical role within F5’s sales organization, supporting sales teams and customers with technical expertise about F5 solutions. The role focuses on helping sell relevant F5 products to large Service Providers in North America in partnership with the Sales Director and Service Provider Team. The Solutions Engineer serves as a trusted adviser, learning customers’ technical and business challenges and proposing solutions that address them. The role presents both technical features and business benefits in a Technical Value Proposition, drawing on F5 technologies for developing and delivering modern applications and multi-cloud application services spanning code to customer.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science, electrical engineering, or management information systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a Sales Engineer.
• Experience with traffic management and load-balancing technologies, such as F5, Citrix, Riverbed, or Kemp.
• Knowledge of HTTP, web servers, and web applications.
• Knowledge of associated protocols, including TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, and DNS.
• Skills in Linux- or UNIX-based systems.
• Skills in networking technologies and Internet security products and services.
• Experience with cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience or knowledge of microservices architecture, systems, and tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• API development and/or management experience.
• Experience in a DevOps environment, including understanding its tools, processes, and culture.
• Experience working with enterprise customers in the financial services space.
• Knowledge or experience in intelligent load balancing, application acceleration, application request routing, web serving, dynamic content caching, and SSL and compression offload.

Responsibilities

• Articulate F5’s product strategy, messaging, positioning, value proposition, and solutions in relation to customer business objectives.
• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, demonstrations, and proofs of concept, using in-person or virtual presentations and whiteboards.
• Mentor and educate sales teams on the value of F5 solutions and related business drivers.
• Determine opportunity viability and map organizational structures.
• Drive the sales process with the Account Manager by identifying the Technical Decision Maker and securing their technical validation, support, and sponsorship.
• Provide world-class customer service throughout the customer life cycle.
• Collaborate with internal technical and sales resources, sharing best practices and updates and offering or seeking expertise as needed.

Benefits

• Incentive compensation may be offered.
• Bonus may be offered.
• Restricted stock units may be offered.
• Benefits are available; specific benefits are not enumerated in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level