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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.

F5 technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe. We give the worlds largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app, anywherewith confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment, helping each other succeed. We take immense 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 to you!

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Overview of the role

The F5 Public Cloud Global SolutionsArchitect (GSA) team is committed to our mission of growing F5 cloud product and services adoption through our public cloud partners and their ecosystems. We are responsible for the global technical relationship management, technical integration and sales enablement for our public cloud partners. As a Public Cloud Global Solutions Architect (GSA), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of F5s cloud solution portfolio.

TheGlobal SolutionArchitect (GSA) is a technical leadership role supporting Sales and is part of a global teamof solution architects. The primary responsibility of the GSA is to increase the efficiency of the field sales engineering organization, working to deliver solution packages, content, enablement and other assets to the technical field. TheGSA acts as a liaison between customers and the Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Product Development teams, to ensure our customer requirements are understood internally.TheGSA also works closely with F5s internal teams and helps build technical sales readiness through our product updates, new product launches, and acquisitions.

What youll do?

• Partner with cloud providers and F5 product team to develop and deliver integrated service offerings, reference architectures, deployment automations, etc. to enable innovation and demonstrate best practices around F5s advanced cloud solutions

• Play the role of an evangelist, thought leader, mentor in the field of public cloud

• Collaborating with other solution architects, build technical sales readiness of F5s Solution Engineers

• Work closely with our internal product management and services teams and provide technical and business understanding for product launches and updates that would be beneficial for our customers

• Collect feedback from partner and F5 field teams and coalesce feature requirements for product management and product development

• Work on strategic opportunities across all geographies and provide technical expertise on public cloud adoption

How youll do it?

• Expertise in secure multi-cloud architectures

• Liaison between Sales and Marketing, Product Management, Product Development and Services

• Applying business and technology skills with structured methodologies to deliver complex solutions to customers and partners

• Deep knowledge of F5 Solutions

What youll bring?

• Deep technical skill in software architecture and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills at all levels of an organization

• Expert knowledge or certification with AWS, Azure or GCP; or other relevant technologies and certifications

• Experience in speaking at industry/customer events, publishing whitepapers/solution articles and blogs

• Knowledge of agile development methodologies, and a good understanding of DevOps and what it means to application delivery (CI/CD).

• Hands on experience with industry automation tools, like Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, and AWS CloudFormation Templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, etc.

• Expertise in multiple programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Golang, etc.)

• Extensive experience making product demonstrations and technical presentations to technical and business leads

• 8+ years of cloud solution development in a relevant environment (pre-sales experience, a plus)

• BS/BA or equivalent work experience

What youll get?

• This role can be based in any location with frequent travels to Seattle HQ, Bay area

• While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role could require travel up to 30% of the time, and working across time zones

• This is a self-driven role for those seeking a technical leadership role, so career growth and development is available at every stage of your career

• The position reports to the Sr Director - Global Solution Architects

• Competitive pay, family friendly benefits, and cool perks

• Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups

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.