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INTRODUCTION

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.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Solutions Engineer (SE) within the State, Local Government, and Higher Education (SLED) vertical at F5 plays a critical role at the intersection of sales and technology. This position partners closely with customers supporting essential public services, where application availability and security are mission-critical. As a trusted technical advisor, the SE supports the sales organization by translating F5’s portfolio into scalable, secure solutions aligned to complex customer architectures. This role requires strong technical depth, strategic thinking, and the ability to clearly articulate solutions both conceptually and visually to technical and executive audiences. Core focus areas include application delivery, data and network security, and ensuring high availability across modern, distributed environments.

What you’ll do:

• Communicate F5’s strategy and value aligned to customer business outcomes
• Deliver technical sales activities including presentations, solution design, demos, and POCs
• Qualify opportunities and map customer organizational and technical stakeholders
• Partner with account teams to drive deals by engaging technical decision-makers
• Act as a trusted advisor to validate requirements and guide solution adoption
• Provide consistent, high-quality customer engagement across the lifecycle
• Collaborate across teams to share expertise and support strategic opportunities
• Lead design and positioning of F5 Distributed Cloud solutions for secure, cloud-native architectures
• Advise on API security strategies to protect and scale customer environments

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

How you’ll do it:

• Experience in F5 Products, including BIG-IP, NGINX, and Distributed Cloud Services
• Advanced knowledge of application delivery controllers and TCP/IP networking
• Knowledge in application authentication methods, such as SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, JWT
• Knowledge in modern applications delivery methods with microservices
• Experience in advanced security and infrastructure operations. Understanding challenges in production environments, and how to solve them.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years of related industry experience
• BS/BA or equivalent work experience
• Familiarity/experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment is a plus
• Experience and backgrounds in security, network, and/or infrastructure engineering
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills required
• Ability to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment

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.

COMPENSATION

The annual base pay for this position is: $144,000.00 - $216,000.00

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: 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 accommodations@f5.com.