Principal Solutions Engineer

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Office, Lilongwe, Central Region
In-Office
Mid level
Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software
The Role
The Principal Solutions Engineer supports the sales team by providing technical expertise, and driving sales processes for F5's Distributed Cloud solutions to meet customer needs.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 Overview:

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the XC Specialist sales organization. The SE’s primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 Distributed cloud to our customers. To be effective, a Specialist SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the “eco-system” that we work in. Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills! 

The high-level objective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling for F5 Distributed Cloud solutions to address our customers business needs, in partnership with the Specialist Sales Account Manager. 

From our customers’ perspectives, the SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges and proposes effective solutions to address their concerns. The F5 SE presents the technical capabilities and importantly the business benefits in the technical value proposition.

Sounds interesting? Read on!

What You’ll Do:
  • Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging, and positioning F5 Distributed Cloud's value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives 

  • Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proofs of concept by various mediums: in-person, virtual presentations, white boarding etc.

  • Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure. 

  • Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship.  

  • Consistently provide world-class customer service through the customer life cycle.

  • Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities. 

What You’ll Bring:
  • Hands on experience in application security, web application firewalls, API security and anti-bot protection

  • Experience in secure Cloud architectures in: AWS, Azure, GCP or other public clouds

  • Experience with multi-cloud design

  • Experience in automation build, configuration managements tools for deployments such as Terraform

  • Good understanding of application and APIs

What You’ll Get:
  • Hybrid working mode

  • Career growth and development opportunities  

  • Recognitions and Rewards

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and cool perks

  • Culture of Giving Back

  • Dynamic Diversity & Inclusion Interest Groups

Apply if you believe your own unique capabilities can contribute to the success of this role and our organization!

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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.

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 [email protected].

Top Skills

Anti-Bot Protection
Api Security
Application Security
AWS
Azure
GCP
Terraform
Web Application Firewalls
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The Company
HQ: Seattle, WA
5,847 Employees

What We Do

F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through their entire life cycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers – enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.

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