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Salary: USD 163,400 - 245,000 / annual
F5 is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to support the sales organization in the technology segment across North America. This is a hybrid sales and technical role focused on delivering technical expertise to customers and partners while driving allocated sales targets.
You will serve as a trusted technical adviser, articulating F5's product strategy and value proposition to align with customer business objectives. Your responsibilities include delivering technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, proof-of-concepts, and demonstrations (in-person and virtual). You will mentor sales teams on F5 solutions and business drivers, identify technical decision makers, secure their validation and sponsorship, and drive the sales process in partnership with Account Managers.
You will determine opportunity viability, map organizational structures, and provide world-class customer service throughout the customer lifecycle. You'll collaborate with internal technical and sales resources to share best practices and expertise across opportunities.
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. The role focuses on intelligent load balancing, application acceleration, application request routing, web serving, dynamic content caching, SSL/compression offload, and related technologies.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience required
- BS/BA degree in relevant field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, MIS) or equivalent experience
- Proven experience as a Sales Engineer
- Experience with traffic management and load-balancing technologies (F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp, or similar)
- Knowledge of HTTP, web servers, and web applications
- Knowledge of protocols: TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS
- Skills in Linux/UNIX-based systems
- Networking technologies and Internet security products/services expertise
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Microservices architecture, systems, and tools experience (Kubernetes, Docker)
- API development and/or management experience
- DevOps environment experience (tools, processes, culture)
- Experience working with enterprise customers in financial services space
