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Salary: USD 139,000 - 208,600 / annual
F5 is seeking a Solutions Engineer III to join the sales organization in New York. This is a hybrid sales and technical role focused on supporting the sales team and serving as a trusted technical adviser to customers and partners.
You will be responsible for achieving allocated sales targets by selling F5 solutions and products to large Service Providers in North America, working in partnership with the Sales Director and Service Provider Team. Your primary responsibilities include:
- Articulating F5 product strategy, messaging, and value proposition aligned with customer business objectives
- Providing technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements (in-person, virtual, and whiteboard sessions)
- Mentoring and educating sales teams on the value of F5 solutions and business drivers
- Determining opportunity viability and mapping organizational structures
- Driving the sales process by identifying technical decision makers, obtaining their validation and sponsorship
- Delivering world-class customer service throughout the customer lifecycle
- Collaborating with internal technical and sales resources to share best practices and expertise
F5 offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications, bridging NetOps and DevOps with multi-cloud application services spanning from code to customer. You will position solutions around intelligent load balancing, application acceleration, application request routing, web serving, dynamic content caching, and SSL/compression offload.
REQUIREMENTS:
- BS/BA degree in relevant field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Management Information Systems) or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer
- Experience in traffic management and load-balancing technologies (F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp, or similar)
- Knowledge of HTTP, web servers, and web applications
- Knowledge of associated protocols (TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS, etc.)
- Skills in Linux/UNIX-based systems
- Skills in networking technologies and Internet security products/services
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Microservices architecture, systems, and tools experience/knowledge (Kubernetes, Docker)
- API development and/or management experience
- Experience in DevOps environments (tools, processes, culture)
- Experience working with enterprise customers in financial services space
