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 Solutions Architect (SA) position is a technical leadership role supporting a Sales region and reports to the Sr Director, SE for India. Architects are typically assigned a technology area to focus on such as Cloud, DevOps, Security, Service Provider.
The SA’s primary function is to work collaboratively with Sales teams identifying appropriate F5 solutions to address customers’ business needs. They provide technical expertise and business understanding across specific or multiple industries. They champion our customers’ requirements and ensure they are understood across other teams within F5 such as Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Product Development.
The SA also shares knowledge and educates the solution engineering team internally and externally via whitepapers, trainings, blogs, tech-tips, presentations etc. To be effective, an SA 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!
Sounds interesting? Read on!
What You’ll Do:
- Play the role of an evangelist, and thought leader in building, operating, securing modern apps and APIs
- Engage with key personas in accounts to help sell the F5 vision and create opportunities
- Work on strategic opportunities providing technical expertise to develop innovative solutions to help win deals
- Collaborate with other solution architects and internal business leaders to share ideas, identify common customer pain points and trends, and define the appropriate F5 solutions
- Work closely with our internal product management and services teams and provide technical and business understanding for product development, launches and updates that would be beneficial for our customers
- Provide mentorship as needed to the Solution Engineering community in the organization
What You’ll Bring:
- Experience in speaking at industry/customer events, publishing whitepapers/solution articles, blogs, tech-tips etc
- Extensive experience making product demonstrations and technical presentations to technical and business leads
- Deep knowledge of F5 Solutions
- 8+ years of related industry experience
- Relevant certifications a plus
- BS/BA or equivalent work experience
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
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].
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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.
