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F5 Networks, Inc Security Engineer - F5 SIRT - RP1030726 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.
The F5 Security Incident Response Team (F5 SIRT) addresses security issues in F5 products. During a security incident, F5 SIRT works to protect your user identities, applications, corporate assets, and customer data. Our SIRT engineers also coordinate with other F5 teams to develop ready-to-deploy technical countermeasures; theyll share them with you and help you put them in place. But the response doesnt stop when the attack does. Well look beyond the reported incident to reduce the overall harm to your organization, as well as understand, anticipate, and deter future threats.
Attractions to the Job:
Our SIRT engineer is a valued contributor on our team in the F5 SIRT. Our team is a dedicated, global team that leads the receipt, investigation, and public reporting of security vulnerability information that is related to F5 products and networks.
You will be well versed in wide variety of security threats, incident handling methodologies and offensive/defensive attack vectors. You'll use this knowledge to identify and form response mitigation plans for a variety of attacks/threats. Our team follows incident handling procedures to drive mitigation of security incidents and will be called to perform attack analysis, configuration suggestions, and potential onsite interaction. As a Security Engineer we predict you can balance multiple active issues of diverse scope simultaneously, while maintaining good communication, particularly written communication to our customers, and accepts ownership of issues until a resolution is delivered or a business as usual state is returned, providing high customer satisfaction. When not engaged in incidents, you have the growth opportunity to mentor other engineers on security related issues, research emerging new threats and both document & present their impact on our products and services. You are an advocate every single day for improving the security of F5 products and services.
Your Day-to-Day:
Do you want a job you love? Do you enjoy working in the security realm and researching new aspects about security? To have a career that provides you an opportunity to join the global leader in advanced application security manager as a member of our top-tier support organization? We are looking for an engineer with a deep passion for security and a desire to help develop a security mindset in others. We highly seek someone with capability and interest to work with incomplete information and to adapt to changing priorities day to day.
Product Vulnerability Response and Management
You will collaborate with the PD Platform Security team to maintain the 3rd Party Module Vulnerability Triage information
Open escalation's 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