Security Engineer III

Overview

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.

Join a high-impact team using cutting-edge security technologies and practices to protect F5’s enterprise and product environments. As a Senior Security Engineer / Threat Hunter, you will lead strategic initiatives, develop technical solutions, and drive continuous improvements in our cyber defense capabilities. You’ll be a key player in threat detection, incident response, and proactive threat hunting across cloud and on-prem environments.

• Engage in threat hunting for Global Cyber Security Detections and Investigations team across enterprise and product environments.
• Identify Security Operations automation opportunities to improve threat hunting practices and up skilling efforts.
• Engage in proactive threat hunting and cloud/host forensics (AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux, Windows, macOS).
• Automate manual processes to reduce operational toil and improve response times.
• Collaborate with SRE, Architecture, and Operations teams to implement security standards and controls.
• Utilize security tooling (i.e., EDR, DLP, vulnerability scanners, posture management).
• Advise stakeholders on secure design principles and security best practices.
• Maintain and improve security runbooks and documentation.
• Stay current on emerging threats, CVEs, and industry trends applying to hunting practices.
• Follow F5 information security policies and protect information assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference
• Performs other related duties as assigned
• Follow the F5 behaviors

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, including incident response, threat hunting, and security engineering.
• Strong experience with SIEM integration(e.g., Falcon, Splunk, Sentinel), SOAR, and EDR platforms.
• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat actor TTPs.
• Apps Proficiency in scripting or utilizing automation tools (Python, Power Apps, Power Automate) for automation, reporting and tooling.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid grasp of UNIX/Linux systems, networking protocols, and firewall architecture.
• Experience with vulnerability management, penetration testing, and secure architecture design.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to interface across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Certifications:
  
  CSFE, CHFI, CCE, GCFE or equivalent SANS training.
• Experience with Service Now, ADO or similar ticketing systems.
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to Fed Ramp, eDiscovery, and DLP casework.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior engineers.
• Ability to drive strategic long-term initiatives with cross org leaders.
• Ability to effectively present to our executive leadership

• Full-time position with potential for shift flexibility.
• Requires scheduled on-call work outside core business hours (early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays) shared with the larger team.
• Duties performed at a desk or computer station; remote collaboration across time zones.

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: $ - $

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