Description

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.

Strategy Deployment Engineer

Position Summary

The Strategy Deployment Engineer works as part of a highly-technical team tasked with learning new F5 products and services as they are being developed. The team produces release readiness content consisting of technical demos, technical briefs, troubleshooting guides and use case documents. The role contributes to creating this content by implementing and using pre-release F5 products and features.

We are looking for someone who enjoys learning new technologies and products and can work with alpha and beta quality software to provide valuable input into the product development process.

To succeed in this position a candidate should be: organized, curious, a problem solver, a great teammate, and passionate about learning and sharing knowledge.

This position works with modern applications and modern workflows and requires an intermediate level knowledge of containers, programming languages and source control (git). Experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), orchestration, and Kubernetes is required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Implement, configure and review pre-release products to provide feedback to Product Engineering and Product Management.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise as a member of an agile team.
• Work as part of an agile team to deliver release readiness content for customers.
• Present work in progress deliverables at system demos.
• Review release readiness material produced by the agile team.
• Participate in projects of moderate complexity with minimal need for supervision or assistance.
• Continue education on new technologies related to F5 products and services.
• Participate in agile rituals and activities.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have a minimum of 8 years relevant work experience in enterprise level environments.
• Able to demonstrate an advanced understanding of system engineering and knowledge of enterprise architectures.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Undergraduate Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience.

About Life@F5

At F5, we truly do help each other thrive and it shows. Fortune magazine named F5 one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for the past two years. We also know that a more diverse F5 is a more powerful F5. We are looking for smart, passionate, open-minded individuals to join us.

F5 offers work/life integration programs such as:

• Freedom to Flex
• Employee inclusion groups
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Tuition assistance for professional development
• A comprehensive mentoring program
• Rewards/recognition, and so much more.

F5 and our employees are passionate about making a difference in the world and F5 enables this commitment through our Global Good initiatives such as:

• Employee donation matching
• Volunteer opportunities
• The F5 Foundation.

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. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table. Duties require the ability to use a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

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].