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Overview of EMEA Technical Support Engineer role
Do you enjoy problem-solving? Are you inspired by helping organizations across the globe?
If so, we have just the job for you. Join F5’s team of Network Support Engineers as we accelerate our efforts to power and protect applications of every description and across every conceivable environment.
So, if you’ve got a curiosity to learn new technologies, a passion for troubleshooting and a desire to work with innovative technology solutions, we'd love to hear from you.
Working as one of our team opens lots of career development opportunities and unlocks a multitude of domains to specialize in.
Your day-to-day activities will include:
- Providing Level 2 technical support to resolve hardware and software issues related to F5 products.
- Maintaining excellent customer communication, including project status, plan-of-actions, and resolution steps.
- Providing F5 customers and partners with a consistently high-quality support experience.
- Working with our tier three engineering services team to overcome technical challenges.
- Building strong working relationships with peers, partnering with engineers, managers, and related F5 departments.
- Writing and updating solution articles to share technical expertise internally and externally
- Handling multiple cases and prioritizing tasks based on customer and business needs.
- Following standards-based processes (as defined in our Quality Management System).
- Continuing your own professional development through participating in ongoing training on our products and related technologies.
The following experience and skills will help you succeed as a Support Engineer at F5:
- Customer support experience with enterprise-level corporate customers in production environments.
- Hands-on technical experience with LAN/WAN operations (e.g., DNS, Open SSL, Cryptography, virtualization, etc.), Network Protocols, UNIX or Linux (e.g., Redhat) operating systems, as well as VMware or equivalent hypervisors and network hardware.
- Solid grasp of TCP/IP protocols and the OSI model.
- Understanding packet captures using Wireshark
- Knowledge of DNS and HTTP protocol in detail.
- Understating of SSL/TLS handshake
- Experience of Network Security (e.g., Web Application Security, AAA, VPN, DDoS, Malware, Application Firewalls, etc.).
- Ability to read, write and speak English fluently, including technical concepts and terminology.
- Able to communicate technical information to customers with varying levels of technical knowledge.
- Good analytical problem-solving abilities.
- Attention to detail.
The following skills are nice to have but if you don’t have them, F5 will be happy to help you learn those in time :
- Experience or ability to grow expertise in Public/Private Cloud technologies (Microsoft, AWS, Google), NGINX, Programming/Scripting (JavaScript, Python, BASH, PERL, Node.JS), Containers (OpenStack, Docker, Velcro), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) and/or Automation (Ansible, Git).
- Fluency in other languages.
- Experience with F5 technologies
We’d love to hear from you!
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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].
Skills Required
- Customer support experience with enterprise-level corporate customers
- Hands-on technical experience with LAN/WAN operations
- Solid grasp of TCP/IP protocols and the OSI model
- Experience in Network Security
- Ability to read, write and speak English fluently
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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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.
