Security Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Build and implement new security controls, processes and tools.
• Identify organizational risks to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and determine appropriate mitigations.
• Leverage native Azure, GCP, and AWS cloud services to automate and improve existing security and control activities.
• Develop or implement open-source/third-party tools to assist in detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.
• Perform technical security assessments against product and enterprise cloud hosted, virtual, and on-premise systems including static and dynamic analysis, and threat modeling.
• Review and test changes to services, applications, and networks for potential security impacts.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering and Operations teams to develop and implement technical solutions and security standards.
• Stay abreast on security best practices and secure design principles.
• Review changes to and ongoing operations of enterprise environments and supporting systems for security and compliance impacts.
• Assist in incident detection and response efforts.
• Implement zero-trust patterns with cloud agnostic tools to support enterprise business units.
• Implement, design, develop, administer, and manage enterprise security tooling.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience working with high-availability enterprise production environments.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby, Rust, etc.) and building scripts for process improvements.
• Experience automating security testing and reporting outputs.
• Technical knowledge and hands-on experience with security and networking security, basic networking protocols, cloud security, network security design, intrusion prevention/detection, and firewall architecture.
• Experience assessing and implementing technical security controls.
• Willingness to innovate and learn new technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Knowledge or familiarity with technological stack (Big-IP, Azure, AWS, GCP, CentOS, Hashicorp Vault, Palo Alto, Qualys).
• Experience with network and application vulnerability and penetration testing tools.
• Baseline competency in administration of Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent public cloud infrastructure.
• Exposure to DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code approach (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, Artifactory, Git).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong self-directed work habits, exhibiting initiative, drive, creativity, maturity, self-assurance and professionalism.
• Agile, tactful, and proactive attitude that can manage prioritization and know when to escalate.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of relevant security and networking experience.

Pay

The annual base pay for this position is: $132,000.00 - $198,000.00.

Benefits

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.