Sr. Security Engineer - Incident Response

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. Senior Incident Response — Poland F5 Office of the CISO | Application Delivery, Security, and AI Resilience Position Summary We are seeking a senior Incident Response Lead based in Poland to serve as a dedicated incident command and response member within F5’s Office of the CISO. This role coordinates cross-functional response efforts across global teams, maintains incident command structure during active events, and ensures consistent communication, documentation, and resolution tracking across F5’s infrastructure, applications, products, and customer-facing environments. The ideal candidate brings senior-level incident response experience, sound judgment under pressure, strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to drive complex incidents from detection through post-incident review. This role advances F5’s incident response execution and operational maturity across corporate, cloud, product, and customer-facing environments, including F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud, WAAP, API security, DDoS, bot defense, hybrid multicloud, and emerging AI-enabled services. The role leads high-severity cyber and product security incident response, end-to-end cyber crisis management, workstream coordination, executive communications, and post-incident improvement. The successful candidate will partner across F5 security, product engineering, SRE, cloud operations, legal, privacy, communications, customer support, and business stakeholders to drive timely, coordinated response outcomes across regions and time zones. Key Responsibilities Incident Response Program Leadership • Support F5’s incident response strategy, roadmap, governance, standards, playbooks, severity model, metrics, and executive reporting. • Lead end-to-end response for cyber and product security incidents, including preparation, detection, containment, recovery, customer impact assessment, and post-incident learning. • Manage cyber crises end to end by defining workstreams, driving decisions, coordinating cross-company and regional stakeholders, and maintaining executive visibility through resolution. AI Security and Incident Response • Build incident response capabilities for AI-enabled applications, models, agents, inference traffic, AI gateways, APIs, and runtime data paths secured or delivered through F5 technologies. • Partner with AI engineering, product security, security research, and governance teams on AI incident classification, response procedures, customer notification inputs, and recovery frameworks. • Advance AI-assisted security operations, observability, automated triage, and responsible response automation across F5 environments. Strategic Security Leadership • Contribute to F5 security strategy across incident response, product security, threat intelligence, application security, detection engineering, and resilience. • Coordinate security, engineering, SRE, product, legal, compliance, privacy, communications, customer support, and business teams during readiness and response activities. • Represent incident response in executive reviews, audits, customer escalations, partner discussions, and board-level conversations. Operational Excellence • Define KPIs and KRIs for response effectiveness, vulnerability readiness, customer-impact reduction, and product security resilience. • Lead tabletop exercises, cyber simulations, product security drills, and customer-impact response assessments. • Improve MTTD, MTTC, MTTR, observability, fleet visibility, automation, and response orchestration across F5 environments. Technical Leadership • Provide expert guidance on cloud, identity, endpoint, application, API, Kubernetes, WAAP, DDoS, bot defense, AI security, threat hunting, vulnerability response, and digital investigations. • Mentor and help guide learning for responders and security engineers through technical leadership, influence, and practical operating guidance. Qualifications • 7+ years of cybersecurity experience, including strong expertise in incident response, security operations, threat hunting, vulnerability response, product security, or investigations. • Proven ability to lead complex incident response activities in SaaS, cloud, hybrid, multicloud, and customer-facing technology environments. • Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques, incident management, executive communications, cross-functional crisis coordination, workstream management, and stakeholder orchestration. • Understanding of application delivery and security architectures, including load balancing, reverse proxy, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, bot defense, Kubernetes ingress, and public cloud security. • Experience conducting AI and security investigations using eReady, AWS, CrowdStrike, model invocation, identity and access, API gateway and application, agent/tool execution, data access and retrieval, cloud and infrastructure, EDR, SIEM, WAF/WAAP, DLP, vulnerability, threat intelligence, and network/edge logs. • Experience influencing outcomes across distributed teams without direct authority; familiarity with NIST, ISO, SOC, PCI, and GDPR requirements preferred. • Ability to support global incident response operations from Poland, including collaboration across LATAM / Americas time zones. Success Measures Success in the first 12–18 months will be measured by supporting improved response capabilities and execution, faster detection, containment, and recovery; stronger product and AI incident readiness; reduced manual effort through automation; and effective coordination across global stakeholders. Role Details: Senior Individual Contributor based in Poland; F5 Office of the CISO; focused on incident response execution, cyber crisis management, workstream leadership, AI security response, application/API security, hybrid multicloud resilience, customer trust, and global stakeholder engagement. #LI-SS5 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. 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