Senior Solutions Engineer, Perth

Available Location: Perth, Australia
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Solutions Engineer to work with our top tier customers and become their Trusted Advisor for their security and business goals. The successful applicant will have a track record of working with large enterprise organisations in driving business and technical outcomes through technology solutions, with experience in engaging at the C-level with Business and Technology stakeholders.
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:

• 7-10+ years experience in a pre-sales SE 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:

• Understanding of "how the internet works". For example: Know the differences between TCP & UDP, and understand what kinds of applications may favor one over the other;
• Can explain the difference between authoritative DNS & recursive DNS;
• Understand the role of a firewall, why TLS (SSL) plays an increasingly important role on today's Internet, a solid understanding of HTTP and a willingness to dive deeper into the quirks of clients & servers alike
• Understanding of how customers make buying decisions, how to explain ROI.

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.