Cloud Security Architectural Specialist

We are seeking an experienced technical professional to join our team as a SD Wan Solutions Engineering Specialist.

This role requires someone who can articulate high-level business benefits to various target audiences, be creative, innovative, and results-oriented, and willing to go the extra mile in a fast-paced environment.

• Work directly with field teams, customers, and technology partners to map business and technical requirements to expertly design technology solutions that meet or exceed customer needs.
• Help drive technical assessment, qualification, and engagement.
• Build, manage, and maintain global solution labs to assist field teams with POCs, demos, solution validations, and testing.
• Manage all aspects of our Innovation solutions lab used for customer demos, partners, and proof-of-concepts.
• In-depth product presentations, demonstrations, and management of prospect evaluations.
• Design interoperability/integration solutions with adjacent technology partners.
• Help raise awareness with the technical communities (SE, support, customer success) at technology partner, systems integration, and services partners by training and collaboration.
• Work closely with various Netskope teams to build solutions, collateral, and demos that can be leveraged by Netskope, channels, technology, and SI partners.
• Author blogs, whitepaper, and solution guides.
• Articulating high-level benefits of the Netskope solution to a target audience (Including Senior Security Management, CISO, CSO, and CIOs).
• Represent Netskope at partner and industry events as an SME (Subject Matter Expert) and User Groups when needed.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 10+ years of deployment experience in similar roles or experience in technical leadership roles.
• Previous experience as a solution architect, consultant, or technical marketing engineer building, architecting, or deploying security solutions.
• Proven track record using it to help drive revenue.
• Working knowledge of the broader threat landscape and the ability to distill technology trends, and explain complex behaviors in simple terms.
• Proven experience working with customers and partners in successful design and deployment of solutions.
• Ability to juggle and successfully drive projects with customers, prospects, and partners.
• Experience with cloud computing solutions implementations including Microsoft Office 365 and Azure, Google, AWS, Box, and Salesforce, etc.
• Proven hands-on experience with information security solutions such as Web Proxy, NGFW, Security Gateways, SIEMs, SAML/SSO, DLP, Data security, and protection technologies such as HSM, Tokenization & encryption gateways.
• Experience working with Active Directory Services including ADFS, working knowledge of Azure AD is desired.
• Strong knowledge of LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, RBAC.
• Experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design, and implementations including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models.
• Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design, and Operations.
• Knowledge of security and cryptography.
• Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies, such as VMware vSphere, EC2, Xen, KVM, OpenStack.
• 2+ years of SaaS implementation experience is strongly preferred.

As a member of our team, you will enjoy:

• A challenging and dynamic work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.

The following skills are desirable but not required:

• Prior experience in early-stage startups.
• Self-starter that can work independently and exercise judgment on a regular basis with minimal oversight along with a 'can do' attitude with a willingness to take a hands-on approach.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Must be willing and able to travel.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred.