Ffive is looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer to join our sales organization. In this sales and technical role, you will act as a trusted adviser, understanding customer technical and business challenges to propose effective solutions and achieve sales targets, primarily for large Service Providers in North America.
What You'll Do
- Articulate F5 product strategy, messaging, and positioning, and present F5’s value proposition.
- Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, demonstrations, and proof of concepts.
- Mentor and educate sales teams on the value of F5 solutions and business drivers.
- Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure.
- Drive the sales process with the Account Manager by identifying the Technical Decision Maker and securing their technical validation.
- Consistently provide world-class customer service throughout the customer life cycle.
- Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, sharing best practices and expertise.
What We're Looking For
- BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS, EE, MIS) or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience is required.
Nice to Have
- Experience as a Sales Engineer.
- Experience in traffic management and load-balancing technologies (e.g., F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp).
- Knowledge of HTTP, web servers, and web applications.
- Knowledge of associated protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS).
- Skills in Linux-/UNIX-based systems.
- Skills in networking technologies and Internet security products and services.
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.).
- Microservices architecture, systems, and tools experience/knowledge (K8s, Docker, etc.).
- API development and/or management.
- Experience in a DevOps environment (understand tools, processes, culture).
- Experience working with enterprise customers in the financial services space.
- Experience with intelligent load balancing, application acceleration, request routing, web serving, dynamic content caching, and SSL/compression offload.
Technical Stack
- F5 products, Traffic management and load-balancing technologies
- HTTP, Web servers, Web applications
- TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS
- Linux-/UNIX-based systems
- Networking technologies, Internet security products and services
- Cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Microservices architecture, K8s, Docker
- API development/management, DevOps tools and processes
Team & Environment
You will be part of the sales organization, working in partnership with the Sales Director and Service Provider Team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $144,000.00 - $216,000.00
Ffive strives to bring a better digital world to life, empowering organizations to create, secure, and run applications. We are passionate about cybersecurity. Everything we do centers around people, prioritizing a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
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.
