Consultant II

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.

Role Overview

Our consultant forms a pivotal part of F5 Networks Professional Services delivery organisation. The organization provides remote services to customers, covering the entire F5 product portfolio over a variety of environments, including private and public clouds, and enterprise data centres. The Professional Services team consists of like-minded individuals supporting each other thru collaboration, mutual mentorship, and appetite for knowledge sharing. Although highly appreciated, prior experience with F5 technologies is not mandatory.

Consultants are encouraged to perform as an independent self-starter, to work under limited instructions and to identify your own requirements to improve efficiency in successfully completing your assignments. You should be capable of building strong internal and external contacts within a team environment and able to demonstrate communication skills, analytical thinking, along with attention to detail and quality.

You will get exposure to our global customers; as such, reading, writing, and speaking English fluently is required, especially the ability to articulate technical concepts and terminology to different audiences with varying knowledge levels.

As a member of our global Consulting team, you will have access to industry-leading training facilities, hands-on labs, and an interface into a wealth of information through our Domain Specialist groups. If there's a required technology where you had limited exposure to, or simply want a more detailed understanding of, we have the resources to provide the knowledge!

Sounds interesting? Read on!

What You'll Do:

• Deliver labour associated with custom scoped Statements of Work to F5 customers and generate Statements of Work for future delivery.

• Provide technical responsibilities that may include, but are not limited to, problem identification, systems architecture definition, hardware/software specification, design, implementation, testing, client training and solution deployment.

• Maintain expert level proficiency of F5 products and technologies through self-directed and formal training.

• Demonstrate ability to become trusted advisor within customer environment so as to manage customer interaction and engagement, including documentation, follow-up as well as effectively lead and deliver technical workshops

• Demonstrate control of engagement and develop customer confidence in F5's ability to resolve critical issues in a timely and effective manner

• Identify additional product/services opportunities within customer's organization.

What You'll Bring:

• BS/BA degree and 8 years of relevant experience, with a focus on architecture and design of Application Delivery and Security solutions

• Load Balancing, Network Firewall, Application Firewall, IP-SEC, VPN, SSL, etc.

• Should be hands-on and be able to perform the role independently as well as demonstrate experience in working with a team of engineers to deliver one or several projects simultaneously.

• Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication, presentation writing, and technical documentation skills.

• Working knowledge and proficiency in F5 products and technologies

• LTM, GTM/DNS, ASM, APM and AFM

• Experience with the following eight core technical areas: 1.IDS/IPS solutions and technologies. 2. Public Clouds: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud,
  3.Virtualized and Containerized Environments: Kubernetes and Docker,

4.Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code: Terraform,

Ansible, Jenkins,

5.CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps,

6.OS: Linux, Unix and Windows,

7.Network and HTTP Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP,

MAC addresses, IP Packets, DNS, and load balancing, and

8.Scripting or Development skills: Python, Ruby, Shell.

• Certifications for one or more F5 products or security certifications (OSCP, OSWE, GIAC, CISSP, Security+, etc) is a plus.

What You'll Get:

• Hybrid working mode

• Career growth and development opportunities

• Recognitions and Rewards

• Employee Assistance Program

• Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and cool perks

• Culture of Giving Back

• Dynamic Diversity & Inclusion interest groups

Apply if you believe your own unique capabilities can contribute to the success of this role and our organization!

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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 Yello/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 accommodations@f5.com.