Security Engineer Incident response

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Security Engineer III Incident Response

F5 Office of the CISO Application Delivery Security and AI Resilience

Position Summary

We are seeking a Security Engineer III based in Poland to serve as a dedicated incident response member within F5s Office of the CISO. This role supports coordinated response efforts across global teams helps maintain incident command structure during active events and ensures consistent communication documentation and resolution tracking across F5s infrastructure applications products and customer-facing environments.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on incident response experience sound judgment under pressure strong written and verbal communication and the ability to support complex incidents from detection through post-incident review. This role contributes to F5s incident response execution and operational maturity across corporate cloud product and customer-facing environments including F5 BIG-IP NGINX Distributed Cloud WAAP API security DDoS bot defense hybrid multicloud and emerging AI-enabled services.

The role supports high-severity cyber and product security incident response cyber crisis coordination workstream tracking stakeholder communications and post-incident improvement. The successful candidate will partner across F5 security product engineering SRE cloud operations legal privacy communications customer support and business stakeholders to help drive timely coordinated response outcomes across regions and time zones.

Key Responsibilities

Incident Response Program Support

• Support F5s incident response strategy governance standards playbooks severity model metrics and executive reporting through disciplined execution and clear documentation.
• Participate in end-to-end response for cyber and product security incidents including preparation detection containment recovery customer impact assessment and post-incident learning.
• Coordinate assigned incident workstreams track decisions and actions engage cross-company and regional stakeholders and maintain response visibility through resolution.

AI Security and Incident Response

• Build incident response capabilities for AI-enabled applications models agents inference traffic AI gateways APIs and runtime data paths secured or delivered through F5 technologies.
• Collaborate with AI engineering product security security research and governance teams on AI incident classification response procedures customer notification inputs and recovery frameworks.
• Contribute to AI-assisted security operations observability automated triage and responsible response automation across F5 environments.

Security Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

• Contribute to security initiatives across incident response product security threat intelligence application security detection engineering and resilience.
• Coordinate security engineering SRE product legal compliance privacy communications customer support and business teams during readiness and response activities.
• Prepare clear incident updates technical summaries and operational inputs for leadership reviews audits customer escalations partner discussions and executive communications.

Operational Excellence

• Track KPIs and KRIs for response effectiveness vulnerability readiness customer-impact reduction and product security resilience.
• Support tabletop exercises cyber simulations product security drills and customer-impact response assessments.
• Help improve MTTD MTTC MTTR observability fleet visibility automation and response orchestration across F5 environments.

Technical Execution

• Provide practical technical support across cloud identity endpoint application API Kubernetes WAAP DDoS bot defense AI security threat hunting vulnerability response and digital investigations.
• Share knowledge with responders and security engineers through documentation peer support and practical operating guidance.

Qualifications

• 5 years of cybersecurity experience including hands-on experience in incident response security operations threat hunting vulnerability response product security or investigations.
• Demonstrated ability to support complex incident response activities in SaaS cloud hybrid multicloud and customer-facing technology environments.
• Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques incident management technical communications cross-functional response coordination workstream tracking and stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding of application delivery and security architectures including load balancing reverse proxy WAF API security DDoS protection bot defense Kubernetes ingress and public cloud security.
• Experience conducting AI and security investigations using eReady AWS CrowdStrike model invocation identity and access API gateway and application agent/tool execution data access and retrieval cloud and infrastructure EDR SIEM WAF/WAAP DLP vulnerability threat intelligence and network/edge logs.
• Ability to work effectively across distributed teams; familiarity with NIST ISO SOC PCI and GDPR requirements preferred.
• Ability to support global incident response operations from Poland including collaboration across LATAM / Americas time zones.

Success Measures

Success in the first 1218 months will be measured by contributing to improved response capabilities and execution faster detection containment and recovery; stronger product and AI incident readiness; reduced manual effort through automation; and effective coordination across global 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.

F5 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.

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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 .