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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. \nEverything 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.\nAbout the Position\nF5 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, integrate, operate, and maintainrobust security monitoring and auditing capabilities across our global platform. The F5 SDC platform delivers a scalable and secure way to deploy applications worldwide. In this role, you will develop and support monitoring and audit solutions that provide the visibility, detection, and alerting needed to protect the platform and enable effective incident response and forensics.\nKey Responsibilities\nPartner with software architects, security engineers, operations/SRE teams, compliance experts, and business stakeholders to understand system boundaries and define what needs to be monitoredand audited.\n\nIdentify, implement, and continuously refine metrics, logs, and alerts to improve operational visibility, incident detection, response effectiveness, availability, and forensic readiness across the platform.\n\nIntegrate logging and monitoring pipelines with existing tools and platforms (e.g., SIEM, EDR, dashboards) and ensure data quality, coverage, and usability.\n\nTune alerts and thresholds to reduce noise while maintainingstrong coverage for security and operational events.\n\nDrive DevSecOpspractices across the software development lifecycle by integrating security controls, automated compliance checks, vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, secret management, and threat detection into CI/CD pipelines.\n\nLeverage Generative AI and AI-assisted security tooling to improve operational efficiency, accelerate investigations, automate repetitive tasks, enhance threat detection, and support security engineering workflows.\n\nWorking on-call and weekend shifts might be needed as per business need\n\nQualifications\nU.S. Citizenship Required: Due to FedRAMP compliance obligations, this role requires the candidate to be a U.S. citizen.\n\nBe Kind\n\nBachelor's degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).\n\n3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, monitoring, or related cybersecurity roles.\n\nPractical experience with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dashboarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic, or similar.\n\nWorking knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).\n\nStrong understanding of log handling and telemetry pipelines, including log collection, aggregation, integration with downstream systems, and alert configuration/tuning based on policies and thresholds.\n\nHands-on experience with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Shell,Go).\n\nFamiliarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and/or the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain is a plus.\n\nSolid understanding of the security and operational challenges in large-scale, distributed systems.\n\nWorking knowledge of cloud orchestration and container platforms such as Kubernetes and/or OpenStack.\n\nRelevant industry certifications (e.g., Security+, GSEC, CISSP) are preferred.\n\nFamiliarity with F5 products and services (e.g., BIG-IP, NGINX, WAF, DDoS, application security solutions) is a plus.\n\nWorking experience in FedRAMP environment is a plus\n\nThe 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.\nThe annual base pay for this position is: $104,700.00 - $157,100.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.\nYou 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. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.\nPlease note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com ).\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nIt 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. 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