Key skills
Intelligent load balancingApplication accelerationTraffic management technologiesCloud providers experienceMicroservices architectureAPI developmentDevOps environmentLinux/UNIX systemsNetworking technologiesWeb applications knowledgeSales Engineer experienceBachelor's degreeAWSAzureGCPK8sDockerCachingLoad BalancingMentoringSales
About this role
F5 is dedicated to creating a better digital world and is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to support their sales team with technical expertise. The role involves articulating product strategies, mentoring sales teams, and providing world-class customer service.
Responsibilities:
- Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging and positioning F5’s value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives
- Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proof of concepts by various mediums – in-person/virtual presentations, white boards etc
- Mentor and educate sales teams on value of F5 solutions and business drivers
- Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure
- Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship
- Consistently provide world-class customer service through the customer life cycle
- Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities
Requirements:
- Intelligent load balancing
- Application acceleration
- Application request routing
- Web serving
- Dynamic content caching
- SSL and compression offload
- BS/BA degree in a relevant field (CS, EE, MIS) or equivalent experience
- Experience as a Sales Engineer
- Experience in traffic management and load-balancing technologies, e.g., F5, Citrix, Riverbed, Kemp, or others
- Knowledge of HTTP, web servers, and web applications
- Knowledge of associated protocols, e.g., TCP/IP, WebSocket, SPDY/HTTP2, SSL, SMTP, POP, DNS, etc
- 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 DevOps environment (understand tools, processes, culture)
- Experience working with enterprise customers in the financial services space
- 8+ years of experience Is required