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F5 F5 SIRT Security Engineer - 
India, Telangana, Hyderabad 
559963844

09.07.2025

Primary Responsibilities

  • Responsible for upholding F5s business code of ethics & for promptly reporting violations of the code or other company policies

  • Manages multiple issues and prioritizes based upon customer and business needs, without direction

  • Provides F5 customers with a consistently high-quality support experience

  • Assist Senior Security Engineer with other tasks as required based upon business operation needs

  • Effectively engages supporting escalation personnel, without direction

  • Participate in weekend support rotation

Product Vulnerability Response and Management

  • Work with the PD Platform Security team to maintain the 3rd Party Module Vulnerability Triage information

  • Open Escalation when requested by Platform Security to investigate orphaned Vulnerability bugs

  • Participate in the release meetings and triage bugs for release

  • Assist ENE owners with ENE006 SRs that are in deadlock or stalled

  • Perform threat and vulnerability management, monitoring of CVE and vendor notifications

  • Monitor the F5SIRT shared mailbox, identify external researchers and create SRs where necessary to be assigned to Security Engineers

Customer Security Incident Response

  • Provide incident handling and drives both attack analysis and mitigation options

  • Participate in tier 2 and tier 3 security support

  • Follows processes defined in F5’s Quality Management System (QMS)

  • Mentoring Security SRs to resolution - Proactively monitors Securty Service Request (SR) with long Time to Resolution (TTR)

  • Working with F5 SIRT Specialists to handle ESRP cases

  • Maintain incident documentation, participate in post-mortems, and write incident reports.

  • Working with SR Security Engineers on post-mortem for ESRP incidents

  • Tracking attack trends and threat intelligence from different sources

  • Monitors security issues in order to identify and act upon them as they occur – Active Mentoring

  • Running workshops to help F5 SIRT Specialists build hands-on experience in a lab environment in order to better prepare for dealing with attacks in the real environment – With Sr. Sec Eng

  • Simulating typical customer network environment (in terms of versions, modules, network devices), running different attacks, documenting security incident response plan and exercising it

  • Work closely with others to develop incident response plans

Building Security Mindset - Security Evangelism

  • Running regional F5 SIRT meetings

  • Handling reactive mentor questions on Security from F5 SIRT Specialists and NSEs – Monitor F5 SIRT email

  • Creating security presentations for a wide audience

  • Engages in on-going training within the security field and with F5 products

  • May lead projects and provide guidance/training to less experienced staff and mentoring.

  • Evaluate and execute cross-functional security initiatives across the enterprise.

  • Work with cross functional Engineering teams to ensure all systems are properly remediated according to our policies and standards.

Bring:

  • Minimum of 5 years of related experience in a technical security role such as support, monitoring or consulting (e.g. pen testing) working with relevant technologies

  • Appropriate security based qualification; CISSP, GCIH (or demonstrated skills and ability to obtain certification) – more than one certification preferred.

  • Strong understanding of industry standards such as CVE, CPE, and CVSS

  • Experience with security incident handling processes, procedures and methodologies.

  • Technical experience with identifying and mitigating a breadth of attacks such as DDoS, web application, DNS and other network attacks.

  • Knowledge with common security vulnerabilities and the ability to judge their severity

  • Experience with working security incidents at corporate production environments

  • Experience working with network and packet analysis tools

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

  • Knowledge with Web Application Firewalls, Firewalls and IPS/IDS

  • Experience with network vulnerability scanners

  • OS hardening and security best practices

  • Hands on technical experience with and very knowledgeable on LAN/WAN operations, and/or networking hardware required

  • CVE and CERT experience

  • Knowledge of security offensive/defensive techniques and methodologies.

  • Understanding of security attack/defense methodologies (e.g. DNS, network TCP/IP, SSL and HTTP)

  • Intermediate understanding and working knowledge of TCP/IP, SSL, DNS, HTTP and common protocols.

  • Knowledge of network and security monitoring tools

  • Coding experience – having in addition to Python knowledge in other scripting languages

  • Familiarity with load balancers, WAF’s and common network architectures

  • Working knowledge of standard UNIX/Linux command line tools

  • Ability to generate new training and knowledge sharing content via various delivery method

  • Proven track record in a team environment

  • Analytical thinker with strong attention to detail

  • Must be able to read, write and speak English fluently, including technical concepts and terminology.

  • Must be able to relay technical information to customers with varying skill levels

  • Ability to create attack Proof of Concepts

  • Experience with incident tracking software, Seibel experience a plus

Get:

  • Hybrid working mode

  • Career growth and development opportunities

  • Recognitions and Rewards

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Competitive pay, , and cool perks

  • Dynamic Interest Groups

Apply if youbelieve your own unique capabilities canto the success of this role

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.