Sr Security Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Identify organizational risks to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and determine appropriate mitigations.
• Leverage native Azure, GCP, and AWS cloud services to automate and improve existing security and control activities.
• Develop or implement open source/third party tools to assist in detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.
• Perform technical security assessments against F5aaS product and enterprise cloud hosted, virtual, and on premise systems, including static and dynamic analysis, and threat modeling.
• Review and test changes to services, applications, and networks for potential security impacts.
• Manage penetration and segmentation testing of F5 applications and networks.
• Review changes to and ongoing operations of enterprise environments and supporting systems for security and compliance impacts.
• Assist in detection and response efforts as a product line subject matter expert.
• Propose new controls to Security Architecture and GRC.
• Build and implement new security controls, processes, and tools.
• Implement zero trust and IAM security patterns with cloud agnostic tooling.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering and Operations teams to develop and implement technical solutions and security standards.
• Configure industry standard security testing/scanning tools (network scanning, code scanning, posture management).
• Advise enterprise stakeholders on security best practices and secure design principles.
• Implement, design, develop, administer, and manage enterprise security tooling.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of progressive responsibility in a security organization.
• 2-6 years of relevant security engineering or network security experience.
• Experience working with high availability enterprise production environments.
• Ability to script in multiple languages (Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc.) and build scripts for process improvements and automation.
• Baseline competency in administering Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or equivalent public cloud infrastructure.
• Technical knowledge and extensive hands on experience with security and networking architecture, networking protocols, network security design, wireless security, intrusion prevention/detection, and firewall architecture.
• Experience automating security testing and reporting outputs.
• Knowledge or familiarity with technological stack (Big IP, Azure, AWS, GCP, CentOS, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, HashiCorp Vault, Palo Alto, Cisco, Qualys).
• Experience assessing and implementing technical security controls.
• Exposure to DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code approach.
• Experience with network and application vulnerability and penetration testing tools.
• Willingness to innovate and learn new technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Strong self directed work habits, exhibiting initiative, drive, creativity, maturity, self assurance and professionalism.
• Agile, tactful, and proactive attitude that can manage prioritization and know when to elevate.

Pay Range

The base pay range per annum for this position is broad and varies by knowledge, skills, experience, geographic location, and market conditions. You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.

Benefits

More details about benefits can be found at

Remote / Hybrid

Hybrid: Employees within 30 commutable miles of an F5 office must work from the office a minimum of 30 business days per quarter.
Remote: Primarily work from a designated home location but can come into an F5 office to work or travel to an offsite location as needed.

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 .