Jr Security Engineer

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 Security Engineer will create and execute strategic methods and solutions to support our information security program, as well as continually enhance our security position in response to the changing technology environment of the industry.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams and system owners to identify security risks and recommend mitigating controls

• Develop and execute information security plans, procedures, and policies

• Develop strategies to respond to and recover from security threats

• Develop or implement open source/third-party solutions to assist in detection, prevention, and analysis of security threats

• Perform offensive security testing activities, such as penetration testing, dynamic application security testing, and vulnerability scanning

• Collaborate with Enterprise Operations, Engineering, and IT teams to implement security standards and ensure standards are followed

• Research emerging threats, vulnerabilities and trends that may affect our product and organizational security

• Assess potential risks and vulnerabilities in company’s services and infrastructure and lead remediation

• Leverage native GCP, Azure, and AWS cloud services to automate and improve existing control activities

• Drive programmatic monitoring of cloud security posture across all F5 systems

• Perform technical security assessments against the F5aaS enterprise

• Collaborate with Global Cyber engineering for security investigations

• Demonstrate F5aaS’s dedication to security to our customers

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

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong understanding of security principles, concepts, and best practices

• Experience with threat modeling methodologies (e.g., STRIDE)

• Knowledge of security testing tools and techniques, including automation and reporting

• Proficiency in programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, C) and scripting

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Expertise in designing secure cloud networks, systems, and application architectures with a focus on AWS, Azure and GCP cloud platforms

• Hands on experience with configuration management and cloud security posture management solutions

• Experience assessing and implementing security controls in all relevant areas (including access management, encryption methods, vulnerability management, network security, application security, etc.)

• Knowledge of common technologies in company stack (Big-IP, CentOS, Kubernetes)

• Experience with network and application vulnerability and penetration testing tools

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical degree

• Advanced industry certification in relevant field (e.g., Ethical Hacker, CISM, CISSP)

• 2 to 3 years of meaningful work experience as an application security, network security, or general security engineer with focus on cloud computing.

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.