Solution Engineer

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At F5, our mission is based on the fact that business depend on apps.

At F5 we actively build a culture that everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. As a global business leader, we know diversity drives innovation, makes everything we build better for our customers, and fuels our success. We know the magic ingredient is our differences, when embraced with humility and respect. And because we know this, we believe that top talent is found in a diversity of individual backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to help us all thrive.

We currently have an opportunity for a talented Solutions Engineer (SE) to join our French SE Organisation. This is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the sales organization. The 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, an 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

The 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 Sales Account Manager. From our customer(s) perspective, the 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 SE not only presents the technical features but also business benefits in the Technical Value Proposition.

Sounds interesting? Read on

**Responsibilities**:
- Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging, and positioning F5’s value proposition and

solutions for customer business objectives.- Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proof of concepts by various mediums - in-person/virtual presentations, white boards etc.- Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure.- Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical

Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship.- Consistently provide world-class customer service through the customer life cycle.- Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices,

updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities.

Qualifications:
- BS/BA or equivalent work experience.- A number of years of related industry experience.- Strong presentation, communication, account management (pre-sales) skills.- Familiarity/experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment a plus.- Relevant certifications a plus.- Fluent verbal and writing skills in Italian and English.

Technical Skills which you should have:
- Skills with F5 Solutions / Products are helpful and/or relevant Experience in key Competitor Offerings- Expertise in Solution Designs for large Scale Environments, both on premises and in public clouds- Experience with Data Center, Virtualization and Cloud computing environments.-
- Experience with modern app deployment and automation- Experience in container orchestration solutions (e.g.: OpenShift, Kubernetes).- Programming languages knowledge is a plus- Advanced experience with one of the following:
- Denial of Service threats, trends.-
- Authentication and authorization.-
- Automated threats and bots.-
- API Security/Management.-
- Ability to produce technical documents and diagrams that convey technical architectural concepts

Physical Demands and Work Environment- This role is primarily office based in Paris with the possibility to work from home or in a hybrid environment- While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role require travel.- This is a self-driven role, so career growth and development are available at every stage of

your career.- The position reports to the French SE Manager.- Competitive pay,- family friendly benefits
- , and cool perks.

F5 is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diversity in the workplace.

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