F5
Sr. TME for AI Security, WAAP and Automation
San Jose, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$138k-$208kDetected 35 days ago
PythonGitCloud PlatformsTerraformAnsibleCI/CDNginxMachine LearningLLMsProduct ManagementHRISLoad BalancingResearchPublic SpeakingAdaptability
About the role
- This includes expanding into broader F5 solutions like application delivery, application security, platform orchestration, XOps integrations, and all deployment models (hardware, virtual, cloud-native, hybrid, multi-cloud).
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable lab environments (hardware-based, virtual, and cloud-native) for demonstrating AI security scenarios, API protection use cases, and DevSecOps workflows, including extensive demo setups and vulnerable app development to simulate real-world threats.
- Create demo kits, sample configurations, enablement playbooks, and agentic AI tools focused on AI security (e.g., F5 AI Guardrails, AI Red Teaming, LLM Model Security and Observability, Secure AI Model Inferencing, Shadow AI Detection and Mitigation ), WAAP, and DevSecOps engineering (e.g., GitHub automation for CI/CD pipelines).
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Field teams to capture evolving customer needs, building reusable assets that adapt to broader priorities like application delivery optimization and XOps workflows across all F5-supported deployment models.
- Deliver engaging presentations at customer briefings, partner workshops, industry events, and analyst sessions, translating complex AI/ML integrations, API vulnerabilities, and DevSecOps processes into business value.
- Build automated, scalable test/demo frameworks using Python, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub automation, and AI/ML tools to streamline AI security validations, API protection workflows, and operational intelligence.
- Develop new tools, vulnerable apps, and extensive demo setups to showcase F5 AI Security, WAAP, AI Guardrails, AI red teaming exercises, DevSecOps-driven playbooks and any integrations effectively
Requirements
- 8+ years in technical marketing, solution engineering, or QA roles within networking, cloud infrastructure, security, or AI domains.
- Proven hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud (XC), or equivalent technologies, with a focus on AI security, API security, and DevSecOps.
- Deep expertise in L2-L7 protocols, traffic management, WAF, OWASP API Security, OWASP LLM, MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATLAS (for AI threats), and other relevant frameworks for guiding AI/ML applications and API defenses.
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to technical blogs, developer communities, open-source projects, or AI/ML research in security contexts.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- advanced degree or certifications in AI/security 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.
- 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
- F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates.
Skills
- Able to work with moderate supervision, delivering high-quality, adaptable results in a fast-paced environment.
Compensation
- $138,400.00 - $207,600.00
- 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.
Benefits
- https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
- F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
- This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.
Company info
- 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.
Equal 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.
- 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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