Sr Consultant

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. 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. 
 

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.

The Senior Consultant is an individual contributor within the Professional Services organization. This role combines strong knowledge in web application security, networking, and cloud delivery with hands-on software development and scripting capabilities.

In this role, you will act as a key technical resource for customer deployments while driving internal delivery innovation—designing, coding, and maintaining custom automation scripts, internal tools, and AI/LLM-assisted workflows that improve consulting efficiency across the team.

Roles and Responsibilities

Hands-On Tooling & Automation Engineering

• Build & Maintain Internal Tooling: Architect and write internal tools, CLIs, and automation utilities (using Python, Terraform, and APIs) to streamline onboarding, standard configurations, and operational workflows for the consulting practice.
• AI & LLM Integration: Build and embed AI-powered capabilities and LLM-assisted workflows into operational tooling to automate log analysis, diagnostics, and issue resolution.
• Delivery Automation: Continuously identify repetitive implementation tasks and build automated scripts and frameworks to optimize delivery speed and quality.

Technical Leadership & Complex Delivery

• Technical Leadership: Act as a key technical resource on F5 security, application delivery, and cloud networking solutions for enterprise customer engagements.
• End-to-End Implementation: Own technical design, configuration, integration, and validation for client projects.
• Advanced Diagnostics & Escalation: Function as an experienced technical resource for diagnosing and resolving operational issues, infrastructure bottlenecks, and delivery obstacles.
• Technical Risk Management: Analyze customer architectures to proactively identify technical risks and design robust mitigation strategies.

Practice Enablement & Knowledge Sharing

• Reusable Blueprints & Patterns: Translate field experiences into reusable code templates, standard operating procedures, and technical assets for the broader consulting organization.
• Trusted Technical Advisor: Build strong, technical credibility with customer engineering teams, security architects, and technical leadership.
• Product Feedback Loop: Channel technical learnings, bug findings, and feature gaps from client environments back to F5 Product and Engineering teams.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualification Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience:
  • 5-8 years of hands-on experience in Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Web Operations supporting enterprise environments.
  • Proven track record of handling complex application delivery and security infrastructure.

Technical Capabilities

• Software Development & Automation: Advanced, hands-on scripting/programming proficiency in Python and Terraform. Demonstrated history of building developer utilities, CLIs, internal tools, or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) modules.
• AI/LLM Integration: Practical, hands-on experience integrating AI/ML APIs, LLM tools, or intelligent scripts into internal workflows, diagnostic tools, or operational tasks.
• Layer 3–7 Deep Domain Expertise: Strong knowledge in at least three of the following domains:
  • Web Application Firewalls (WAF) & Bot Management
  • Load Balancing, Reverse Proxies, and API Gateways
  • Layer 3–7 DDoS Mitigation and CDN Architecture
  • Cloud Operations and Multi-Cloud Networking
• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience deploying and managing solutions on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Networking & Web Technologies: Strong foundational and deep Layer 7 expertise, including TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS, TLS/SSL, and modern web application delivery architectures.
• Troubleshooting Excellence: Exceptional root-cause analysis and problem-solving skills across customer infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Consultative Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts clearly to both enterprise customer engineering teams and internal stakeholders.

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 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.