About the Position
F5 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer II to design, integrate, operate, and maintain robust 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with software architects, security engineers, operations/SRE teams, compliance experts, and business stakeholders to understand system boundaries and define what needs to be monitored and audited.
- Identify, implement, and continuously refine metrics, logs, and alerts to improve operational visibility, incident detection, response effectiveness, availability, and forensic readiness across the platform.
- Integrate logging and monitoring pipelines with existing tools and platforms (e.g., SIEM, EDR, dashboards) and ensure data quality, coverage, and usability.
- Tune alerts and thresholds to reduce noise while maintaining strong coverage for security and operational events.
- Drive DevSecOps practices 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.
- Leverage Generative AI and AI-assisted security tooling to improve operational efficiency, accelerate investigations, automate repetitive tasks, enhance threat detection, and support security engineering workflows.
- Working on-call and weekend shifts might be needed as per business need
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship Required: Due to FedRAMP compliance obligations, this role requires the candidate to be a U.S. citizen.
- Be Kind
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, monitoring, or related cybersecurity roles.
- Practical experience with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dashboarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic, or similar.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Strong understanding of log handling and telemetry pipelines, including log collection, aggregation, integration with downstream systems, and alert configuration/tuning based on policies and thresholds.
- Hands-on experience with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Shell,Go).
- Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and/or the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain is a plus.
- Solid understanding of the security and operational challenges in large-scale, distributed systems.
- Working knowledge of cloud orchestration and container platforms such as Kubernetes and/or OpenStack.
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Security+, GSEC, CISSP) are preferred.
- Familiarity with F5 products and services (e.g., BIG-IP, NGINX, WAF, DDoS, application security solutions) is a plus.
- Working experience in FedRAMP environment is a plus
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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $104,700.00 - $157,100.00
F5 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.
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. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with [redacted].com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or
