F5 · 3 weeks ago
Senior Security Engineer
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$141K/yr - $211K/yr
5+ years expF5 is dedicated to creating a better digital world and empowering organizations through innovative security solutions. The Senior Security Engineer will develop and implement strategic processes and technical solutions to enhance the company's information security program and improve its security posture.
Consumer ElectronicsSaaSSecurityVirtualization
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 enterpise 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
Qualification
Required
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 multiples languages (Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc.) and experience building scripts for process improvements and automation
Baseline competency in administration of 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 (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, Artifactory, Git)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
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 escalate
Benefits
Incentive compensation
Bonus
Restricted stock units
Benefits
Company
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company that specializes in application security, performance, and delivery.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.
2020-11-08Post Ipo Equity
1999-06-04IPO
1998-09-24Series Unknown
Leadership Team
François Locoh-Donou
President and CEO
Mohan Veloo
Chief Technology Officer - Asia Pacific, China & Japan
Recent News
2025-12-24
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