Security Engineer

About the Role

As a key member of the pre-sales team, you partner closely with your sales counterpart, prospects and Vectra customers in the assigned region. The Security Engineer leads customers and partners through demos and guides on all things Vectra in a clear and concise manner. You drive all pre-sales related activities for our prospects leading them all the way through to closing of the deal (and who doesn't love closing a deal!). And because we love our customers, you might step into some collaboration with customers periodically after the deal is closed to further make valuable contributions to the relationship.

At a Glance

• Pre-sales technical account management together with the Regional Sales Team.
• Explore and maintain knowledge of Vectra's key competitors.
• Communicate multi-functionally constantly to ensure all key team members are in the loop about product functionality and product desires experienced in the field.
• Partner with the Product Management and R&D departments to develop features critical to Vectra's success.
• Develop and maintain an in-depth technical knowledge of the Vectra product line.
• Identify new opportunities by creating and developing strong technical relationships with customers and channel partners.
• Maintain knowledge at a high technical level of the current security landscape.
• Collaborate with Customers on technology reviews, product findings, and integrations with other technologies they may have.
• Collaborate with other Vectra Engineers on high-level projects to deliver Vectra technologies to our customers.
• Participate in deployment review and forecast calls.
• Participate in design review and release meetings.
• Travel as needed within region.

What Will Impress Us

• Startup DNA - willing and able to go above and beyond, motivated to find solutions.
• Customer-first behaviour.
• Extensive experience in a similar capacity as technical or pre-sales.
• Communicating excellently in verbal and written at a business proficient level in German and English; French is plus.

Technical Qualifications

• Deep understanding of security-focused product lines (CASB, EDR, SIEM or forensics-type platforms) with the ability to translate into security best practices.
• Proven understanding in networking and ability to understand L3 to L7 OSI layers.
• String written (RFP) and verbal communications (Pre-sales presentations and conferences) are a must.
• Good understanding of an attacker progression (Red Team or Pentest).
• Good understanding of Incident Response (Blue Team) methodologies.
• Proven understanding of Cloud Security.
• Proven understanding of Security Processes and methodologies (CISSP/...) is a plus.

Sounds like this could be a match? We are looking forward to receiving your application!