Solutions Engineer

About

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.

Our mission is based on the fact that businesses depend on applications. We believe applications are the most valuable assets of any organization in the digital age and have built a strategy to become the leader in multi‑cloud application services. With F5’s expertise powering over half of the world’s applications across all environments, we deliver and secure more applications—including modern AI ones—providing revenue‑generating, brand‑anchoring value to enterprises, service providers, financial and educational institutions, government entities, and consumer brands.

We actively build a culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Diversity drives innovation, makes everything we build better for our customers, and fuels our success.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging, and positioning F5’s value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives.
• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proof of concepts by various mediums – in‑person/virtual presentations, white boards, etc.
• Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure.
• Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship.
• Consistently provide world‑class customer service through the customer life cycle.
• Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities.

Qualifications

• BS/BA or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a technical, customer‑facing role (Solutions Engineer, or similar).
• Strong presentation, communication, account management (pre‑sales) skills.
• Comprehensive F5 Solution knowledge or relevant experience in key competitor offerings preferred.
• Relevant certifications a plus.
• Fluent verbal and writing skills in German, French and English highly valued.

Technical Skills

• Skills with F5 Solutions / Products are helpful and/or relevant; experience in key competitor offerings.
• Expertise in solution designs for large‑scale environments.
• Experience with data center, virtualization and cloud computing environments.
• Experience in secure cloud architectures.
• Experience with container orchestration solutions (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and SCM tools – would be a plus.
• Advanced experience with one of the following:
  • Web application security
  • Denial of Service threats, trends
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Automated threats and bots
  • API security/management
• Ability to produce technical documents and diagrams that convey technical architectural concepts.
• Experience in RFX process a plus.
• Understanding of / familiarity with:
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • AI/ML concepts
  • Prompt engineering and prompt evaluation
  • Model behavior, bias, and limitations
  • Ability to explain AI architectures/concepts clearly to non‑AI expert audience
  • Knowledge of how to use AI tools (chatbots, agents…) for content search, analysis, generation, task automation, and potentially code generation

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• This role is primarily based in Switzerland out of a home office.
• While we encourage remote/virtual meetings, the nature of the role requires travel to cover the different districts in the country.
• This is a self‑driven role, so career growth and development is available at every stage of your career.
• The position reports to the SE Manager Switzerland.
• Competitive pay, family‑friendly benefits, and cool perks.
• Tuition assistance for professional development.
• Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups.

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.