Role Overview
This is a hybrid position - 30 days per quarter working in the office. Days are up to the employee. We empower our customers—the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, financial and educational institutions, government entities, and consumer brands—to create, secure, and operate applications that deliver extraordinary digital experiences. Join F5’s team of Technical Support Engineers as we accelerate our efforts to power and protect applications of every description and across every conceivable environment.
Your day-to-day activities will include:
- Providing Level 2 technical support to resolve hardware and software issues related to F5 products.
- Maintaining excellent customer communication, including project status, plan-of-actions, and resolution steps.
- Providing F5 customers and partners with a consistently high-quality support experience.
- Working with our tier three engineering services team to overcome technical challenges.
- Building strong working relationships with peers, partnering with engineers, managers, and related F5 departments.
- Writing and updating solution articles to share technical expertise internally and externally.
- Handling multiple cases and prioritizing tasks based on customer and business needs.
- Following standards-based processes (as defined in our Quality Management System).
- Continuing your own professional development through participating in ongoing training on our products and related technologies.
Culture
Learn more about our culture here: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/culture and https://www.f5.com/company/diversity-inclusion.
Working as one of our team opens lots of career development opportunities and unlocks a multitude of domains to specialize in. F5 is happy to help you learn new technologies in time.
About F5
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.
Required Skills and Experience
- Customer support experience with enterprise-level corporate customers in production environments.
- Hands-on technical experience with LAN/WAN operations (e.g., DNS, Open SSL, Cryptography, virtualization, etc.), Network Protocols, UNIX or Linux (e.g., Redhat) operating systems, as well as VMware or equivalent hypervisors and network hardware.
- Solid grasp of TCP/IP protocols and the OSI model.
- Understanding packet captures using Wireshark.
- Knowledge of DNS and HTTP protocol in detail.
- Understanding of SSL/TLS handshake.
- Experience of Network Security (e.g., Web Application Security, AAA, VPN, DDoS, Malware, Application Firewalls, etc.).
- Ability to read, write and speak English fluently, including technical concepts and terminology.
- Able to communicate technical information to customers with varying levels of technical knowledge.
- Good analytical problem-solving abilities.
- Attention to detail.
Nice to have
- Experience or ability to grow expertise in Public/Private Cloud technologies (Microsoft, AWS, Google), NGINX, Programming/Scripting (JavaScript, Python, BASH, PERL, Node.JS), Containers (OpenStack, Docker, Velcro), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) and/or Automation (Ansible, Git).
- Fluency in other languages.
- Experience with F5 technologies.
