Security Engineer II
Job Location:
Reston, VA - USA
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Job Summary
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.
F5 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer II to design integrate operate and maintain robust security monitoring and auditing capabilities across our global platform. The F5 SDC platform delivers a scalable and secure way to deploy applications this role you will develop and support monitoring and audit solutions that provide the visibility detection and alerting needed to protect the platform and enable effective incident response and forensics.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with software architects security engineers operations/SRE teams compliance experts and business stakeholders to understand system boundaries and define what needs to be monitored and audited.
Identify implement and continuously refine metrics logs and alerts to improve operational visibility incident detection response effectiveness availability and forensic readiness across the platform.
Integrate logging and monitoring pipelines with existing tools and platforms (e.g. SIEM EDR dashboards) and ensure data quality coverage and usability.
Respond to alerts tune alerts and thresholds to reduce noise while maintaining strong coverage for security and operational events.
Leverage Generative AI and AI-assisted security tooling to improve operational efficiency accelerate investigations automate repetitive tasks enhance threat detection and support security engineering workflows.
Working on-call and weekend shifts might be needed as per business need
Qualifications
U.S. Citizenship Required: Due to FedRAMP compliance obligations this role requires the candidate to be a U.S. citizen.
Be Kind
Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
3 years of hands-on experience in security operations monitoring or related cybersecurity roles.
Practical experience with logging monitoring and SIEM/dashboarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty Sumo Logic Grafana CrowdStrike DataDog Splunk Thycotic or similar.
Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g. AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform).
Strong understanding of log handling and telemetry pipelines including log collection aggregation integration with downstream systems and alert configuration/tuning based on policies and thresholds.
Hands-on experience with IaC tools.
Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and/or the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain is a plus.
Solid understanding of the security and operational challenges in large-scale distributed systems.
Working knowledge of cloud orchestration and container platforms such as Kubernetes and/or OpenStack.
Relevant industry certifications (e.g. Security GSEC CISSP) are preferred.
Familiarity with F5 products and services (e.g. BIG-IP NGINX WAF DDoS application security solutions) is a plus.
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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $104700.00 - $157100.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
Required Experience:
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About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
