Security Engineer III

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. About the Role F5 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Security Engineer III to advance our monitoring, detection, and incident response capabilities across the F5 SDC platform. Our platform provides a global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications. In this role, you will design and enhance monitoring and audit solutions, improve detection quality, and strengthen our ability to respond to and investigate security incidents in a large-scale distributed environment. Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and continuously enhance observability solutions by leveraging AI-powered monitoring, telemetry analytics, logging, tracing, and metrics collection to improve platform reliability, security visibility, incident detection, response effectiveness, availability, and forensic readiness. Partner with Software Architects, Platform Engineer [... source excerpt omitted ...] ticipate in 24/7 on-call rotations and weekend support activities, as required, to ensure timely response to operational incidents, security events, and critical platform issues. Qualifications Be Kind Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience). 4–6 years of experience in security operations, monitoring, detection engineering, or incident response. Strong hands-on experience with logging, monitoring, and SIEM/dash boarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, DataDog, Splunk, Thycotic, or similar. Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud [... source excerpt omitted ...] . Relevant certifications (e.g., Security+, GSEC, CISSP) are preferred. Familiarity with FedRAMP is 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. The annual base pay for this position is: $152,200.00 - $228,400.00 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