Sales Engineer - Focus Enterprise and Midmarket (m/f/d)

Sophos; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Sophos in Germany seeks a Sales Engineer focusing on Enterprise and Midmarket to support the sales team by defining technical requirements, mapping them to Sophos solutions, and driving successful product trials and evaluations.

You will demo solutions, train audiences, qualify opportunities with technical staff, collaborate with Partners, and contribute to product management feedback. Travel within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is required; a full driving licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Enterprise Architecture components: network design, virtualization, directory services, firewalls, APIs.
• Strong technical expertise in Firewall and network products.
• Technical expertise in Endpoint products and MDR/SOC Services.
• Knowledge in AI technologies and Tools.
• Understanding public cloud infrastructure principles.
• Experience in working and supporting channel Partners.
• Strong presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to map features to business benefits.
• Ability to perform needs assessments and identify pain points and competition.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Strong troubleshooting with clear escalation and preventive guidance.
• Hands-on with partners and customers on technical requirements.
• Driving licence.
• Willingness to travel within DE/AT/CH and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Support sales to increase revenue by explaining complex topics to prospects.
• Assist technical staff in design and architecture of prospect solutions.
• Conduct demos, product and company presentations to large audiences.
• Query prospects to qualify sales opportunities with technical staff.
• Gather partner feedback and feed into Product Management.
• Address partner questions and manage technical evaluations.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Firewall & Networking

Endpoint & MDR/SOC

AI Technologies

Public Cloud

Channel Partners

Presentation Skills

Business Benefits

Needs Assessment

English Communication

Troubleshooting

Hands-on Work

Driving Licence

Travel Willingness

Job description

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

As Sales Engineer with focus on Enterprise and Midmarket you are responsible for all technical aspects of supporting our sales team by determining technical requirements, matching them to Sophos solutions, making product trials and evaluations successful and generating business. You will present in front of, as well as train larger audiences.

What You Will Do:

• Support sales to increase the company revenue using technical sales skills to convince prospects to purchase Sophos solutions by explaining complex topics to prospects

• Assist technical staff from partner and customers in design and architecture of prospect solutions based on appropriate sizing and resiliency guidelines

• Conduct demos, product- and company presentations - also to larger audiences - to help increasing the company revenue; support partners, sales or other audience

• Query prospects to qualify sales opportunities and conduct analysis with technical staff to determine requirements and specifications of solutions

• Support other departments by collecting and aggregating partner feedback and feeding e.g. into Product Management

• Address partner questions and requirements and assist and manage frequent technical evaluations by working with these Partners

What You Will Bring:

• Technical expertise in Enterprise Architecture components (network design, virtualization, directory services, firewalls, APIs, etc).

• Strong technical expertise in Firewall and network products

• Technical expertise in Endpoint products and MDR/SOC Services

• Knowledge in AI technologies and Tools

• Understanding the principles of public Cloud infrastructure Technologies

• Experience in working and supporting channel Partners

• Good presentation skills – ability to prepare and deliver an effective technical presentation to a technical or non-technical management audience unassisted

• Ability to link product features to business Benefits and requirements

• Ability to perform needs assessment, understanding technical needs/fit, pain points and competitive threats

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal also in English

• Strong troubleshooting skills – escalating the issue with appropriate details if required. Offer prescriptive suggestions for future prevention.

• Ability to be hands‑on, working directly with partners and customers, handling technical requirements and configuration issues

• A full driving licence is required.

• Willingness to frequent travel within Germany, Austria, Switzerland, occasionally international for conferences and training.

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