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Senior Solutions Engineer, Public Sector (Canberra-based)

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The Senior Solutions Engineer will drive technical sales in the public sector, develop security strategies, and build trusted relationships with clients.
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Available Location: Canberra, Australia
Preferred Location of Canberra, with Sydney as a secondary choice
The Solution Engineering organisation is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers.
Reporting to the Director of Solution Engineering ANZ, the Senior Solutions Engineer is a Senior level role in our Public Sector team. The successful candidate will have strong experience in the public sector including Federal, State and Local Government agencies and large account pre-sales management as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills suited for executive-level engagement. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and understanding of public sector requirements to design and implement cutting edge solutions that solve complex security, performance and reliability challenges. Your role will be to build passionate champions within the technology ranks in your accounts, drive sales for identified opportunities, and leverage your relationships with these technical champions to build a revenue pipeline where no opportunities yet exist.
This is an exciting opportunity to directly impact critical government services and contribute to the modernisation of public sector IT infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
  • Land an end-to-end value prop for web security & performance that spans the breadth of Cloudflare Product offerings.
  • Empower customers in their security adoption journey, helping them to define a secure strategy,
  • Architecture of necessary security controls aligned with Cloudflare Security and Performance product suites
  • You will work closely with Account Executives to educate your prospective customers on how they can obtain success on the Cloudflare platform
  • Apply technical knowledge to architect security solutions that meet business, IT, Regulation and Compliance needs, infusing key security technologies where appropriate.
  • Be a Voice of the Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Global Engineering and Product teams at Cloudflare to remove blockers and influence the roadmap.
  • Maintain long-term trusted adviser relationships with the peers at your customers and work hand-in-hand with the Customer Success team to ensure your customers are delighted with Cloudflare offerings.

Key Skills:
  • 6+ years experience in a pre-sales Solution Engineering role;
  • Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior security executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on security solutions/projects.
  • Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer security, compliance, and data protection problems through Cloudflare's technology stack . Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, Security teams, Security admins, DevSecOps, Cloud Security architect teams).
  • Customer Focus. Customer obsessed leader with an "I will get it done" approach to solving customer challenges.
  • Value Realisation. Ability to understand customer business objectives and outcomes and the ability to quickly leverage tech solutions to accomplish those outcomes.
  • Trusted Technical Advisor. Ability to build strong relationships with senior security stakeholders and quickly build credibility and be viewed as a trusted advisor.

Technical Skills:
  • A deep understanding of core industry components of Cloudflare solutions (and a desire to learn more):
    • Internet security technologies including DDoS and DDoS mitigation, Firewalls, TLS, VPN, DLP
    • Networking technologies including TCP, UDP, DNS, IPv4 + IPv6, BGP routing, GRE, SD-WAN, MPLS, Global Traffic Management
    • HTTP technologies including reverse proxy (e.g., WAF and CDN), forward proxy (secure web gateway), serverless application development
    • Zero-trust network access (ZTNA & SASE) concepts including identity management and authentication
    • Cloud computing technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure and others
    • Some scripting or programming experience with one or more of JavaScript, Python, Golang, BASH
    • Understanding of, or experience with, regulatory requirements such as IRAP, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC-2, ISO/IEC, Essential Eight.

Bonus!
  • Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills;
  • You've built a web application before, or contributed to an existing application in a meaningful way;
  • You can describe the differences between CSRF, XSS and SQLi in detail and Cloudflare's role in defending against them;
  • Understanding of, or experience with, regulatory requirements such a PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC-2;

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Bash
Bgp
Cloudflare
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Dlp
Dns
Essential Eight
Firewalls
GCP
Gdpr
Go
Gre
Hipaa
Ipv4
Ipv6
Irap
Iso/Iec
JavaScript
Mpls
Pci Dss
Python
Sd-Wan
Soc-2
Tcp
Tls
Udp
Vpn

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