Local ICT Company
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced customer focused individuals to join
a leading provider of Integrated Technology Solutions and Value-Added Reseller providing
technology products and solutions to customers. The position offers unrivalled opportunities for
career progression.
Cybersecurity Presales Engineer
We are looking for a high energy and customer-centric Technical Presales Engineer, who has strong
knowledge & experience in cyber security products such as Checkpoint, Cisco, Imperva, to name a
few.
Job Description
• Dedicated Presales Engineer for all our security products.
• Strong vendor relationship to ensure an understanding of the vendor’s products, business
and technology positioning.
• Responsible for understanding customers’ specific security requirements, driving adoption,
supporting them with all technical issues, and forging deep relations with customers,
partners and vendors.
• Works closely with Vendor technical teams to understand current and new technical
developments within assigned product/s and technologies.
• Works with clients and inside sales team to obtain technical priorities, challenges, and
initiatives that can be translated into Cybersecurity opportunities.
• Ensures that proposed solutions, when implemented, meet the needs and functional
requirements of the customer.
• Able to leverage deep expertise and understanding of customer use cases to design and
implement security policies that protect customers at-scale or address bespoke
requirements.
• Conduct both routine and reactive security research to improve customer understanding of
threats, exposures, and vulnerabilities at all levels.
• Ability to manage client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the
involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC
• Assist the sales team with technical product knowledge and presentations.
• Ability to conduct information security risk assessments.
• Strong customer, quality and results orientation
• Ability to recognize and embrace change as the external environment and organization
evolves
• Ability to interface with non-IT savvy business partners as well as technical staff.
• Ability to articulate challenges effectively to partner and customer executives
• Responsible for validating partner BOMs and configurations.
• Responsible for the coordination, delivery, and quality of technology solution deliverables
within the domain of the opportunity which may include items such as design, installation,
configurations, deployment architectural diagrams, and proposals.
• Obtain and maintain required certifications for partnership with key vendors
• Develops and fosters relationships with strategic Key Vendors and Partners
Requirements
• Must be a graduate of Computer Science, Information Security or equivalent.
• Must have passion driving Cybersecurity solution strategies.
• 2+ years’ experience working in a start-up and IT environment.
• Customer-facing technical capabilities; ability to deliver technical briefings, presentations
and demonstrations.
• Excellent time management, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
• Excellent written, oral communication and strong interpersonal, organizational and
presentation skills
• Articulate the high-level benefits of the full Security architecture to our target audiences
(typically senior security management up to CISO and CIO
• Proven industry accreditations highly advantageous – certifications from Checkpoint, Cisco,
etc.
TO APPLY
Interested persons meeting the above criteria should forward their CVs and application letters to the
Human Resources Manager via the following email address [email protected]