Sr Consultant

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.

The Senior Consultant is an individual contributor within the Professional Services organization. This role combines strong knowledge in web application security networking and cloud delivery with hands-on software development and scripting capabilities.

In this role you will act as a key technical resource for customer deployments while driving internal delivery innovationdesigning coding and maintaining custom automation scripts internal tools and AI/LLM-assisted workflows that improve consulting efficiency across the team.

• Build & Maintain Internal Tooling: Architect and write internal tools CLIs and automation utilities (using Python Terraform and APIs) to streamline onboarding standard configurations and operational workflows for the consulting practice.
• AI & LLM Integration: Build and embed AI-powered capabilities and LLM-assisted workflows into operational tooling to automate log analysis diagnostics and issue resolution.
• Delivery Automation: Continuously identify repetitive implementation tasks and build automated scripts and frameworks to optimize delivery speed and quality.

• Technical Leadership: Act as a key technical resource on F5 security application delivery and cloud networking solutions for enterprise customer engagements.
• End-to-End Implementation: Own technical design configuration integration and validation for client projects.
• Advanced Diagnostics & Escalation: Function as an experienced technical resource for diagnosing and resolving operational issues infrastructure bottlenecks and delivery obstacles.
• Technical Risk Management: Analyze customer architectures to proactively identify technical risks and design robust mitigation strategies.

• Reusable Blueprints & Patterns: Translate field experiences into reusable code templates standard operating procedures and technical assets for the broader consulting organization.
• Trusted Technical Advisor: Build strong technical credibility with customer engineering teams security architects and technical leadership.
• Product Feedback Loop: Channel technical learnings bug findings and feature gaps from client environments back to F5 Product and Engineering teams.

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Network Engineering Information Systems or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience:
  • 5-8 years of hands-on experience in Professional Services Solutions Engineering Technical Consulting or Web Operations supporting enterprise environments.
  • Proven track record of handling complex application delivery and security infrastructure.

• Software Development & Automation: Advanced hands-on scripting/programming proficiency in Python and Terraform. Demonstrated history of building developer utilities CLIs internal tools or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) modules.
• AI/LLM Integration: Practical hands-on experience integrating AI/ML APIs LLM tools or intelligent scripts into internal workflows diagnostic tools or operational tasks.
• Layer 37 Deep Domain Expertise: Strong knowledge in at least three of the following domains:
  • Web Application Firewalls (WAF) & Bot Management
  • Load Balancing Reverse Proxies and API Gateways
  • Layer 37 DDoS Mitigation and CDN Architecture
  • Cloud Operations and Multi-Cloud Networking
• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience deploying and managing solutions on at least one major cloud platform (AWS Azure or GCP).
• Networking & Web Technologies: Strong foundational and deep Layer 7 expertise including TCP/IP HTTP/S DNS TLS/SSL and modern web application delivery architectures.
• Troubleshooting Excellence: Exceptional root-cause analysis and problem-solving skills across customer infrastructure networking and application layers.
• Consultative Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts clearly to both enterprise customer engineering teams and internal stakeholders.

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.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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