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About the position:
F5 Distributed Cloud is looking for a Sr.Security Engineer with experience in building, integrating, operating, and maintaining robust security monitoring and auditing systems. F5’s SDC platform provides a global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications. In this position, you will build and maintain monitoring and audit systems across the platform that provide necessary visibility and alerting to effectively defend the platform.
Responsibilities:
Be Kind.
Collaborate with software architects, security defenders, Operations, SRE, compliance experts, and business leaders to understand the logical boundaries of the systems and identify the events to monitor, audits to maintain, alerts to tweak, as well as systems to integrate with.
You will continuously hunt for areas and metrics to be added into monitoring systems for better operational visibility, incident response capability, availability, and forensics capability of the overall platform.
You will work on vulnerability management and DevSecOps strategies.
You will participate in executing the Incident Response Plan for the platform and be responsible for providing necessary information during response and forensics.
Minimum qualifications:
US Citizenship
BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of security operation and monitoring experience.
Experience with DevSecOps and vulnerabilitiy assessment and management.
Experience with logging, monitoring, SIEM, dashboarding tools like AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic, etc.
Working knowledge of at least one Cloud Computing platform (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.)
Good Understanding of Kubernetes and Containers and deploying apps in containers.
Hands on experience with computer programming languages and/or scripting languages such as Python, Java, Shell
Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
Self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take on new challenges in an enthusiastic manner
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: $195,800.00 - $293,800.00F5 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
- US citizenship
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 8+ years of security operations and monitoring experience
- Experience with DevSecOps
- Experience with vulnerability assessment and management
- Experience with logging, monitoring, SIEM, and dashboarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Splunk, and Thycotic
- Working knowledge of at least one cloud computing platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containers, including deploying applications in containers
- Hands-on experience with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, or Shell
- Understanding of security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
- Working knowledge of cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or OpenStack
- Self-motivated attitude and willingness to learn new areas
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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