Sales Engineer: Zero Trust And Secure Access

Sales Engineer, Hybrid Operate, Cyber & Strategic Risk, Zero Trust and Secure Access

Are you interested in improving the cyber and organizational risk profiles of leading companies? Do you want to be involved in designing Zero Trust focused Cyber security solutions for our clients? Are you excited about shaping security requirements and solutions for clients based on rapidly changing technology advancements, emerging regulatory and compliance requirements, and the fast-paced nature of security threats?

If yes, then Deloitte's Hybrid Operate Sales Engineering team could be the place for you! Deloitte is looking for a top-performing Sales Engineer to help grow its Zero Trust Managed Services business within the Hybrid Operate Cyber & Strategic Risk Practice. Transparency, innovation, collaboration, sustainability: these are the hallmark issues shaping cyber initiatives today. Deloitte's Hybrid Operate business is passionate about making an impact with lasting change for our clients. Delivering our industry leading services requires fresh thinking and a creative approach. We collaborate with teams from across our organization in order to bring the full breadth of Deloitte, its commercial and public sector expertise, to best support our clients. Our aspiration is to be the undisputed integrated cyber security services leader and managed services provider helping to transform the Identity and Access Management services marketplace. Our team is client focused and mission driven. As a Sales Engineer, you'll work with our diverse team of passionate professionals to help solve some of today's toughest challenges to enable our clients to achieve business growth and manage risk.

Zero Trust brings together advanced cloud-based technologies and leading practices to deliver Zero Trust Access and Secure Access use cases that accelerate deployment and time to value for clients. We help clients sustain, transform, and evolve their secure access infrastructure and management capabilities, ensuring that zero trust based access from internal users and third parties to enterprise on-prem, cloud and SaaS based applications are managed with consideration for scope, role, and context with the ultimate outcome of reduced security incidents.

The Team

The Sales Center of Excellence (COE) supports Deloitte's businesses in uncovering, nurturing, and closing sales opportunities. Working hand-in-hand with Partners, Principals and Managing Directors, these executives focus their highly skilled efforts in securing relationships with qualified targets and decision makers to uncover opportunities, develop effective sales strategies, manage the pursuit process and act as a key advisor to the pursuit team throughout the sales process.

Work you'll do

As a Sales Engineer you will be on the forefront of client solution and service design within our Digital Identity Hybrid Operate Program. You should possess a deep understanding of Identity and Access Management operations and familiarity of technologies such as Okta, SailPoint, ForgeRock, CyberArk, AWS, Saviynt, Azure, GCP, Transmit Sec, and BeyondTrust. Experience with the sales and pursuit process is critical for this role as is the ability to assess client needs for optimal service recommendations for the near-term and long-term.

Sales Engineering responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the Sales Account Executive, solution offering teams, and other SMEs to :
• Serve as a sales engineer proficient in secure access, network security and zero trust network access type services to support account teams with pursuits
• Work with practice leadership and stakeholders regarding the sales engineering services and offerings available from Deloitte's Digital Identity Hybrid Operate practice.
• Advise account teams regarding the technical approach of the response by taking ownership of the solution description and usage and composition of assets within a solution
• Technically qualify opportunities as they progress in the sales process.
• Ensure the client's technical needs are being met with proposed solutions and services.
• Participate in development and delivery of client pursuit materials such proposals, RFP responses, statements of work, discussion decks, as well as execution of sales/pursuit meetings
• Determine scope of services and offered managed services for pursuits based on client proposals or conversations
• Create client pursuit materials in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to share Deloitte's capabilities, experience, and qualifications
• Manage technical scoping and solution communications with account teams, vendors, 3rd party service providers, Deloitte leadership, and client personnel, where needed, during the pursuit process
• Act as the primary technical interface between the engagement team service leads for all in-scope services
• Identify and develop opportunities to provide new and expanded services
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple pursuits across the Digital Identity service portfolio

Solution Development:

• Seek opportunities and offer guidance on how to improve the sales methodology including owning and driving internal improvement initiatives
• Prepare, produce, and deliver materials used for reporting on opportunities and sales
• Analyze opportunity and sales data for insights and trends to shape future solution design
• Analyze complex issues to determine impact and to suggest alternative solutions based on client needs and objectives

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years working in security information and/or technology engineering support experience
• Ability to translate client requirements into solution design that can be delivered by the Digital Identity team
• Highly proficient in Microsoft applications including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with security technologies in the client environment such as firewalls and network security services, identity technologies such as Okta, SailPoint, AD, cloud integrations within AWS, Azure, GCP. Understanding of VDI is a plus
• Basic knowledge in system security architecture and security solutions
• Travel required, varying based on client coverage
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred:

• Strong understanding of Security Assessments, such as NIST CSP
• Bachelor of Science with a concentration in computer science, information systems, information security, cloud security, identity, decision sciences, risk management, engineering (mechanical, electrical, industrial) or other business/technology disciplines or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of network security services and vendor products such as from Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and security services on major hyperscalers, as well as enterprise level risk mitigation strategies
• Understanding of cloud-delivered managed services
• Working knowledge of operating systems and networking technologies in general
• Working knowledge of cyber threats, defenses, motivations and techniques
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative design skills across Microsoft application suite
• Self-motivated to improve knowledge and skills
• Experience with understanding clients with global network deployments
• A strong desire to understand the what as well as the why and the how of security incidents
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)