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.
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
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.
- Curiosity and work in industry trends and challenges that include AI and PQC
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
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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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $163,400.00 - $245,000.00F5 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: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. 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 [email protected].
Skills Required
- 5+ years of related industry experience
- BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
- Experience or background in security, network, and/or infrastructure engineering
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
- Ability to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
- Familiarity or experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment
F5 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about F5 and has not been reviewed or approved by F5.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation, with RSUs and a discount ESPP commonly included. Pay packages for many technical roles are considered competitive when equity is taken into account.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that increases with tenure, sick time, paid holidays, and paid family leave are prominently featured. Additional programs like volunteer time and periodic wellness long weekends are highlighted as part of the time-off ecosystem.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Health plans include travel support for specific care (such as reproductive and gender‑affirming services) and mental health resources, alongside comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. These elements are presented as part of a broad, inclusive approach to healthcare.
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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.
