Distributed Cloud Support Engineer I

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.

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.

Distributed Cloud Support Engineer
Our technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe! We give the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app,
anywhere—with confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment, helping each other succeed. We take extraordinary pride in being trusted advisers to our customers, offering the best solutions for their interests. If our mission and culture excite you, we would love to talk with you!

We are seeking a Distributed Cloud Support Engineer I who is hardworking and committed to customer success. You are comfortable in both the Support and Engineering environments, translating internal Engineering communications into clear, concise directions for customers and partners. You are passionate about helping our customers tackle problems. You will provide support via phone, email, Slack and web portal. Support requests range in complexity from "how to" questions through involved debugging and forensic efforts when prioritizing operational issues. Visualizing problems remotely is key to being successful in this role along with excellent analytic and troubleshooting skills. You will have a significant career growth opportunity within a fast-paced SaaS company.

What will you do?
• Fix reported issues and advocate for the customer.
• Collaborate with sales and engineering teams to provide support to resellers, service provider and enterprise customers, as well as end users via telephone, email, Slack and the web portal.
• Issue reproduction and concise documentation of solutions provided through technical notes, case studies and knowledge base articles.
• Critical issue management and customer assurance when handling reported issues.
• Coordinate fixes by engineering or Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) when required and relay appropriate information to our partners and customers.
• Provide recommendations on how to improve supportability, reliability, availability, and serviceability based on lessons learned through issue resolution.
• Training and enabling our service partners to ensure that they can sufficiently support customer issues.

How do you qualify?
• 2 or more years of experience working in an operations environment.
• Background in customer service/support and IT, network, or IT security incident management.
• IT Security or IT Operations experience with corporate customers in production environments.
• Experience driving efficiencies, handling growth, and delivering results.
• Good understanding of IT, Network, or IT SOC best practices and a real passion for continuous improvement.
• Strong organizational skills and work well with contacts in various business subject areas.

Advantageous to have:
• Understanding of Networking and Layer 7 Protocols.
• Familiarity with Container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Data Representation types (XML, JSON and YAML).
• Public cloud experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Microsoft Azure is preferred.
• Security product/solutions experience (Firewalls, WAFs, DDoS) is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, independent and collaborative.
• Approachable disposition and steadfast in delivering.
• Ability to prioritize and multitask when leading sophisticated technical issues.
• Phenomenal communicator with English
• Understanding of routing and switching technologies.
• Ability to read different scripting and automation (Python, Shell and Ansible).
• Experience with Virtualization technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Physical Demands and Work Environment
• This role requires availability outside normal business hours to align with the distributed team or to respond to critical security events.
• Some travel may be required (less than 10%).

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 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 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.