Cloudflare
Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer, Application Performance and Security
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Application Performance and Security Solutions Engineer (EMEA)
Available locations: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Lisbon, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, Munich, Germany, Paris, France
What you'll do as a Application Performance and Security Solutions Engineer
You will work with our clients to understand their business needs and understand their current applications landscape with the goal of helping them develop a security posture that meets their requirements while also keeping their applications and assets safe according to the most recent standards in cyber security, with high levels of reliability and performance.
You will work closely with our Account Executives (AEs); generalist SEs, as well as every other team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support.
Responsibilities
You serve as a trusted advisor to our customers; helping them find the best solution for their business needs with Cloudflare.
- Help account pre-sales with Solution Design and Proof of Concept stages of sales engagements; for the application security and performance portfolio.
- Be hands on with the Cloudflare technology building labs and configuring proof of concepts when needed.
- Understand our customers IT landscape and security requirements and develop an architecture for our customers to support their business needs
- Articulate the benefits of the Cloudflare application performance and security product portfolio vs competing solutions
- Promote retention by capturing and communicating gaps in product or features
- Collaborate and coordinate with account sales/pre-sales teams on opportunities and liaise with product management and support through the deal cycle.
Skill Requirements
- Curiosity and Learning Agility
- 3+ years of prior Technical Sales, Systems Engineering, or related experience
- Experience interacting with senior level/executives to communicate a message of network and security transformation
- Familiar with trends and attacks in cyber security (e.g. DDOS, SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, etc)
- Hands-on experience with Cloud based architectures (e.g AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Detailed understanding of workflow from user to application including hybrid architectures with Azure, AWS, GCP.
- Knowledge of the common web application frameworks and practices (JAMstack, Micro-services, GraphQL, event-driven architecture...)
- Knowledge of one or more common web frameworks (Django, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Angular, React...)
- Experience with web performance testing and optimization such as RUM, Synthetic testing and deep understanding of the protocol stack (DNS, TCP, HTTP, SSL...)
- Experience with Application, Security, Performance and Reliability products such as WAF, Bot Management, DDOS, Firewall, DNS and CDN.
- Experience with sophisticated Botting technologies and technics (e.g Residential proxies, Headless browsers, fingerprinting rotation, click-farms)
- Fundamental understanding of customer network and application architectures.
- Experience with JavaScript, Restful APIs, JSON, and code versioning solutions (e.g. Git, Gitlab, Bbitbucket) and scripting languages
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Fundamental understanding of the networking concepts (e.g BGP, TCP, Anycast, IP)
- Stay up to date not only with Cloudflare's specific products, but with industry trends.
- Ability to jump in with hands-on configuration when needed
- Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritize between competing goals
Other desirable skills areas include:
- Industry Certification, e.g. CISSP, CISA, CEH or OSCP
- Cloud Provider certification e.g AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Oracle OCI
- Experience in one or two industry verticals (Industry, Retail, Banking, Automotive, Supply-chain, Insurance...)
- Certification with any of the major Cloud Provider
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