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.

Network Support Apprenticeship

F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data centre, and software-defined networking deployments to successfully deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5’s products allow our customers to build a dynamic infrastructure that aligns their IT capabilities with their evolving business needs. F5 creates a unified and flexible architecture that enables our customers to simplify management, reduce costs, and deliver faster and better service to their customers and employees.

Our Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity to combine professional training with real working experience and join an industry-leading company in a unique role. The company, F5.Inc, is currently seeking a highly motivated Network Engineer Apprentice. F5’s products allow our customers to build a dynamic infrastructure that aligns their IT capabilities with their evolving business needs. F5 creates a unified and flexible architecture that enables our customers to simplify management, reduce costs, and deliver faster and better service to their customers and employees. F5 Networks Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

The Role:

As a Network Engineer Apprentice, you will work as part of a dynamic, highly technical team on a number of F5’s technologies. Our engineers assist many top companies across the globe in a variety of industries, on infrastructure that is vital to their operational functions. The apprentice would have the opportunity to learn, shadow, and assist the engineers in a variety of tasks and projects. There are many opportunities to specialize in F5’s diverse range of solutions and become Subject Matter Experts in multiple fields. This role opens the door to additional support positions or many other career choices within F5 and beyond.

Day to Day You Will:

• Learn about F5 solutions and tech stack
• Reproduce and test real-world scenarios in F5’s Labs
• Gain insight into F5 technology with hands-on configuration and troubleshooting
• Work with virtual environments and set up VLANs
• Diagnose and fix network issues

You will improve the following skills and experience during this role:

• Hands-on technical experience with internetworking/data centre operations including WAN operations, Network Protocols, TCP/IP, OSI Model, UNIX or Linux (e.g. Redhat) operating systems, Wireshark/ Tshark/ HTTPwatch tools, VMware
• Network Security (e.g. Web Application Security, AAA, VPN, DDoS, Malware, Application Firewalls, etc.)
• Troubleshooting and Customer handling

Expected skills, attitude and behaviours of the Network Engineer Apprentice:

• Keen to learn
• Logical and creative thinking skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good verbal and written communication
• Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of situations
• At least a basic understanding of Linux
• Ability to work independently and to take responsibility
• A thorough and organized approach

The program is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of network basics, in-depth coaching on computer network communications, and practical training in real-world scenarios. Throughout the apprenticeship, you will develop the skills needed to handle customer calls, prepare for industry certifications, and become proficient in F5 and related networking technology tasks.

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.