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.
About the position:
F5 is looking for a Security Engineer with experience in building, integrating, operating, and maintaining robust security monitoring and auditing systems. F5's Edge 2.0 platform provides global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications. In this position, you will build and maintain monitoring and audit systems across the platform that provide necessary visibility and alerts to effectively defend the platform.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with software architects, security defenders, Operations, SRE, compliance experts, and business leaders to understand the logical boundaries of the systems and identify the events to monitor, audits to maintain, alerts to tweak, as well as systems to integrate with
- You will continuously hunt for areas and metrics to be added into monitoring systems for better operational visibility, incident response capability, availability, and forensics capability of the overall platform
- You will participate in the definition of processes around change and inventory management and develop solutions to audit the changes
- You will work with other teams within security organization to define communication and alerting protocols for effective and timely actions
- You will participate in defining and executing the Incident Response Plan for the platform and be responsible for providing necessary information during the response and forensics
- Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple domain areas, providing mentorship to other team members
Minimum qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 4+ years of security operation and monitoring experience
- Experience with logging, monitoring, SIEM, dashboarding tools like AWS GuardDuty, Sumo, Grafana, SolarWinds, DataDog, Splunk, etc.
- Working knowledge of at least one Cloud Computing platform (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.)
- Good understanding of how to handle logs from various systems, integrate with systems handling logs and metrics, how to setup and tune alerts based on thresholds and policies
- Hands on experience with computer programming languages and/or scripting languages such as Python, Java, Shell
- Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
- Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
- Self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take on new challenges in an enthusiastic manner
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills
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.