F5 - Senior Solutions Engineer - Cloud Architectures

The SE Job Overview :

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the sales organization.

The SEs primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 solutions to our customers.

To be effective, an SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the eco-system that we work in.

Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

The high-level objective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling relevant F5 solutions and products to our customers business needs, in partnership with the Sales Account Manager.

From our customer(s) perspective, the SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges and is able to propose effective solutions to mitigate their concerns/offer gainful solutions.

The F5 SE not only presents the technical features but also business benefits in the Technical Value Proposition.

Sounds interesting? Read on!

What youll do :

- Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging and positioning F5s 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.

- 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.

How youll do it :

- Experience in secure Cloud architectures, Security product like WAF, ZTNA, Firewall, SSL VPN.

- Experience with public/private cloud vendors and automation toolsets, basic CICD understanding.

- Experience with SaaS vendor and able to articulate SaaS benefits.

- Experience with container orchestration solutions (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes).

- Proficient in one or more programming languages will be added advantage, good understanding of routing, switching, virtualization.

What youll bring:

- 12+ years of related industry experience with FSI background.

- 8+ years of experience in a similar customer facing technical role.

- Familiarity/experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment a plus.

- Relevant certifications a plus.

What youll get:

- This role is primarily based out of Mumbai with flexibility to work remotely as well.

- While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role could require travel up to 50% of the time, and working across time zones.

- This is a self-driven role, so career growth and development is available at every stage of your career.

- Competitive pay, family friendly benefits, and cool perks.

- Tuition assistance for professional development.

- Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job.

(ref:hirist.tech)