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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.\nWe currently have an opportunity for a talented Senior Solutions Engineer (Sr SE) to join our Spanish organisation. This is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the sales organization.\nThe Sr SE’s primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 solutions to our customers. To be effective, a Sr SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the “eco-system” that we work in. Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!\nThe high-level objective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling relevant F5 solutions and products to our customers business needs, in partnership with the Account Executive.\nFrom our customer(s) perspective, the Sr SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges and can propose effective solutions to mitigate their concerns/offer gainful solutions. The F5 Sr SE not only presents the technical features but also business benefits in the Technical Value Proposition.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nResponsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.\nGlobal Responsibilities\nProvides complex design and systems engineering configurations\nPartners with product development and product management to assist with Change Request (CR) and Customer Special Request (CSR) cases\nMaintains a high level of technical knowledge of F5 and the relevant industry\nUtilize the F5 Sales Strategy and Solution Messaging to identify solutions for customer business objectives\nParticipate in the development and support of presentations for customers and partners\nClearly articulate technical elements of the F5 value proposition to customers and partners\nMaintain knowledge of competitive landscape and share knowledge with CAT team\nContribute to the creation of case studies, white papers, and media articles for customers and/or partners\nFoster a collaborative, team-based environment, sharing best practices and building lasting relationships\nEffectively negotiate and pursue conflict resolution\nActively utilize SE tools: SalesForce.com, Idea, EDGE, Mainstreet and other SE readiness programs\nPartner with sales team to maintain detailed account profiles including organizational charts, customer products, strategy and technology needs\nUnderstand and effectively utilize F5 organizational resources\nConsistently provide world-class customer service during pre-sales, implementation, and post-sales activities\nLead strategic (organizational) opportunities\nWell developed SME focus for one technology\nDeliver customized product presentations using an advanced solution-based sales approach\nProactively provide consultative support\nCreate customer documentation for POC\nUnderstand business requirements involved with technical account strategy\nWork effectively with Engineering, Product Development, and Technical Support organizations\nSolve problems independently and creatively\nPerform other related duties as assigned\nChannel support activities include:\nSupport F5 channel partner sales initiatives\nProvide channel partners sustainable training on F5 solutions and competitive differentiation\nProvide channel partners technical expertise and oversight as required\nProactively provide consultative support\nWork in collaboration with Channel and Sales management to establish channel partners and to qualify partner’s ability to sell F5 solutions\nPost sales activities include:\nUnderstand and follow escalation process\nPartner with the F5 Technical Support and customers/partners to resolve issues\nQualifications\nMultiple years of related experience working within Cloud, Security, Application Delivery, Network Infrastructure, DevOps, SaaS, IaaS or PaaS environments. Knowledge of AI infrastructure and / or AI Security is highly preferred\nStrong presentation, communication, account management (pre-sales) skills\nSignificant experience and a number of years pre-sales / Systems Engineering expertise \nBS/BA or equivalent work experience\nF5 core product experience or relevant experience in key competitor offerings highly preferred\nIn-depth industry knowledge and understanding of F5 technologies, solutions and product offerings strongly preferred\nFluent English with good written and oral communication skills\nFirst class presentation skills\nExperience with MS office suite or Works\nPhysical Demands and Work Environment\nThe role is hybrid based from our Madrid office\nWhile we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role requires travel\nThis is a self-driven role, so career growth and development are available at every stage of your career\nThe position reports to the Director of Solutions Engineering based in Italy\nCompetitive pay, family friendly benefits, and cool perks\nF5 is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diversity in the workplace.\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.\nPlease 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).\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.\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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