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F5 Networks, Inc Principal Security Engineer - RP1030914 in SEATTLE, Washington
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.
Job Description:
F5, Inc. Platform Security Team Product Certifications
About the Team
Career opportunity. Help expand F5 to complete our world-wide reach.
F5 sits between the Internet and some of the largest companies on Earth. We keep their applications running fast, safe, and efficiently. F5s hardware and software products are highly configurable and blazingly fast. The Platform Security team is responsible for ensuring that the products F5 builds are as secure as we can make them. We provide service and support to F5 development teams in all phases of the Secure Development Lifecycle from architecture and design time security and threat analysis to best development practices training, to security testing and certifications, to vulnerability response and management.
Platform Security has a unique vantage point within F5 Product Development. Our Software Engineers understand multiple products in their entirety not only how the features work but how they work together. This makes Platform Security engineers highly valued at F5.
Position Summary
This position is a dual role requiring technical expertise and the ability to lead projects across multiple teams and vendors. The ultimate goal is to achieve standards-based certifications for F5 products. Perform as an individual contributor and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams. Requires little direct management to complete most of the assigned tasks.
Primary Responsibilities
Serves as technical expert for certification standards, including FIPS and Common Criteria
Leads analysis of requirements and works with the development teams to design for standards compliance
Assists Managers with project scope and estimating
Liaises with cross-functional teams to ensure that project is delivered in its entirety.
Act as a mentor for junior members of the team
Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes and standards
Engages with customers to address escalations and devise solutions
Engages with Product Management to drive detailed product requirements
Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
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
Expert knowledge of the FIPS 140-3 standard, and optionally, Common Criteria
In-depth experience with cryptography and cryptographic algorithms, entropy, and related subjects
Broad knowledge of security and secure development lifecycle.
Expert Knowledge and extensive experience with vertical s