Public Sector Senior Architect

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 Solutions Architect Job Overview: The Solutions Architect (SA) position is a technical leadership role supporting a Sales region. Architects are typically assigned a technology area to focus on such as Cloud, AI, DevOps, Security, Service Provider.   The SA’s primary function is to work collaboratively with Sales teams to identify appropriate F5 solutions to address customers’ business needs. They provide technical expertise and business understanding across specific or multiple industries. They champion our customers’ requirements and ensure they are understood across other teams within F5 such as Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Product Development.  The SA also shares knowledge and educates the solution engineering team internally and externally via whitepapers, trainings, blogs, tech-tips, presentations etc.   To be effective, an SA needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge of F5 products as well as the “eco-system” in which we operate. Just as importantly, an SA needs strong written and oral communication skills that allow them to translate deep technical concepts into language consumable by a wide-ranging audience . These audiences will range from senior leadership (c-suite) to deeply technical staff. Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!  What you’ll do?   ·        Work on strategic opportunities within the assigned region/area of specialization and provide technical expertise  ·        Where multiple solutions exist, evaluate trade-offs between alternatives from technical and business perspectives ·        Play the role of an evangelist, and thought leader in your area of technical specialization  ·        Quickly learn adjacent technologies when/where appropriate to extend core knowledge ·        Collaborate with other solution architects and internal business leaders to share ideas, identify common customer pain points and trends and identify appropriate F5 solutions  ·        Work closely with our internal product management and services teams and provide technical and business understanding for product launches and updates that would be beneficial for our customers  ·        Provide mentorship as needed to the Solution Engineering community in the organization How you’ll do it: ·        Liaison between Sales and Marketing, Product Management, Product Development ·        Experience working with strategic business opportunities across Enterprises, Service providers, and Public Sector customers. ·        Advanced knowledge of modern apps and AI infrastructure competitive landscape  ·        Advanced experience with F5 solutions and automation (Application Delivery, Application Security, Automated threats, DevSecOps practices, Denial of Service, Authentication and Authorization, API) ·        Experience with Kubernetes and Docker Containerization including automation tools, processes, logging and troubleshooting tools, and methods  ·        Experience with multiple Container Orchestration concepts and platforms  ·        Operational expertise on public cloud platforms from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform ·        Advanced knowledge of multiple Linux distributions including installation, system maintenance, application management,