Cyber Defense Engineer

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.

Cyber Defense Engineer

In this opportunity, you will collaborate with other exceptionally hard-working engineers and analysts in a constantly expanding fast-paced environment.

You will have a strong passion for cyber security and its best standards. This will be conveyed through analysis, communications, and organization wide collaboration.

Since we are a global team, it will require strong communications with team members between the different time zones. You will need to action real time security events with little guidance. The candidate for this position is expected to grow into an SME (Subject Matter Expert) in a related job function and be able to train other team members.

What will you do?

• Act as a primary responder for security events and incidents, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure thorough analysis and response.
• Facilitate communications with stakeholders which may include End Users, Leadership, and Legal.
• Document actions taken in knowledge base articles, ticketing systems, and casework as required.
• Provide continuous improvements to Security Processes and Runbooks.
• Perform Threat Model Assessments and Third-Party Security Assessments.
• Lead Tabletop Exercises.
• Leverage cross-functional relationships with key stakeholders to understand business needs, define problems and ensure incident response tactics align with business objectives and priorities.
• Present key findings and recommendations to senior management to support decision-making.
• Perform Insider Threat analysis and use Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools and practices.
• Contribute to the creation and tuning of new detections.
• Provide training and mentorship to team members, sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Follow F5 information security policies and protect information assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference
• Know the latest security trends, news, CVEs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

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Qualifications

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Duties are performed while sitting at a desk or computer table. Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone and read printed material. Working in an environment where work hours are scheduled shifts but your position is a full time position. This role may be required to work outside of core business hours including early morning, late evening, overnight, weekends, and holidays.

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.