Solutions Engineer - Chennai (Pre-Sales experience is a must)

Sonicwall; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,100,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SonicWall in Chennai, India, is seeking an experienced Solution Engineer to drive presales activities, technical discovery, and customer engagements across the SonicWall portfolio. This role balances channel collaboration with hands-on product demonstrations, lab demos, and PoCs, with travel up to 30% and a mix of office and remote work.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in presales, CISSP certification, and hands-on security expertise across networking, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Presales/Solution engineering or equivalent role.
• Cyber Security CISSP Certified.
• Microsoft Azure or AWS Associate desired.
• Retaining specialist knowledge across SonicWall products to the desired level.
• SNSA & SNSP SonicWall Certified Training will be provided.
• Familiarity with governance and compliance issues (HIPAA, PCI, SOX, FERPA, GDPR).
• Experience with networking technologies including NAT, firewall, VPN, PKI; virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure).
• Experience with Managed Security Services, XDR, MDR is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery conversations to qualify customer requirements and build a bill of materials.
• Conduct technical sales presentations and product demonstrations to 1–100 participants.
• Articulate SonicWall value proposition and competitive offerings.
• Develop 10+ trusted relationships with channel partners and key decision makers.
• Maintain a personal demo lab and support remote partner product trials.
• Lead PoCs with partners or customers and participate in beta testing with product teams.
• Collaborate with support and product management to share best practices and roadmap insights.
• Help onboard new Solutions Engineers and enable regional sales teams.

Skills

Presales expertise

Solution engineering

Technical sales leadership

Whiteboarding & presentations

Partner relationship building

Cybersecurity knowledge

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

AWS

Azure

Active Directory

LDAP

IDS/IPS

Job description

SonicWallis a cybersecurity forerunnerwith more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alonein the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

This is a Solution Engineering role typically is 70% office or remote working in the regional country you are aligned to, supporting sales and channel technical activities and up to 30% traveling.

This role is aligned to someone who is a self-starter, passionate about technology, enabling teams and connecting with people to help solve their requirements. The ideal candidate must have proven hands-on experience in cyber security products, excellent communication, and presentations skills. This is a perfect opportunity for an individual with previous Pre-Sales, Support, or Professional Services proven experience at a Vendor, Channel, Customer or Distribution role, who is looking to have a balance of channel and technical sales activities and build trusted relationships with partners.

Responsibilities Include

• Proactive leader of technical discovery conversations to qualify and validate the customer requirements and use cases to build out a bill of materials that meets the customer needs and aligns to the desired outcomes
• Conduct technical sales presentations, product, and solution demonstrations across SonicWall portfolio to an audience typically between 1-100 persons, keeping partners and customers informed of our new solutions and industry trends
• Talk to and demonstrate SonicWall unique value proposition and to know our key competitive offerings in this space
• Builds out a minimum of 10 trusted relationships with channel partners, holding reoccurring meetings with their channel technical decision makers
• Builds out and maintains personal lab for most common demo requests and personal development
• Support remote partner product trials
• Technical lead for proof of concepts that are either with a partner or direct with a customer
• Participate in beta testing and feedback of products, working alongside the product management teams
• Teaming with support where necessary to preserve relationships with partners and customers
• Support key technical marketing initiatives, builds out collateral, presenting on virtual or external events
• Develop expertise to a PoC level between 3-6 x SonicWall product areas and a subject matter expert and go to persons for region
• Shares best practices with fellow peers
• Provides support for onboarding new solutions engineers
• Keeps regional sales informed of roadmap insights, product updates and technical best practices
• Adheres to the company values, guidelines, and solution engineering regional reporting tasks

Characteristics Of The Role

• Demonstrates a balance of business and technical acumen, proactively seeks to take a technical sales lead without instruction
• Develops skills and uses experience in business focused discussions to envision and describe how a technical solution compliments existing customer and partner business practices
• Proven ability using formal best practice methods to present a convincing presentation, solution selling, demonstrate whiteboarding skills, objection handling and excellent time management
• Receives little instruction on day-to-day work and general instructions on new assignments.
• Working in an effective way that maximizes the available time, optimize teaming discussions to deliver the required outcomes on time and to the required ask
• Exhibits advanced wide-ranging experience, using in-depth professional knowledge, acumen, concepts, and company objectives to develop, resolve complex models and procedures
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, evaluating, adapting of complex techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Work is reviewed upon completion and is consistent with departmental objectives.
• Networks with key contacts including product management, support, marketing, and peers within the Solution engineering organization.
• Adapts style and uses persuasion in delivering messages that relate to the wider firm business. Frequently advises others on complex matters

Desired Education And Experience

• Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of experience working in a Presales/Solution engineering or equivalent role.
• Cyber Security CISSP Certified
• Microsoft Azure or AWS Associate desired
• Retaining specialist knowledge across SonicWall products to the desired level
• SNSA & SNSP SonicWall Certified*Training will be provided
• Familiarity with governance and compliance issues and management/reporting solutions and requirements. Working knowledge of HIPAA, PCI, SOX, FERPA, CIPA, GDPR, etc.
• In addition, the candidate must have experience with the following technologies: Full range of L2-L7 networking technologies and protocols, NAT, stateful firewall, IDS/IPS, web and content filtering, proxies, endpoint security,SSE.SASE,Cloud Security email security gateways, VPN and encryption (IPsec/SSL), PKI and key management, 802.11/WLAN, Syslog, NetFlow/IPFIX, Active Directory and LDAP, reading, interpreting and creating scripts, regular expressions and/or custom signatures, virtualization platforms including VMware, Hyper‑V, AWS and Azure.
• Experience around Managed Security Services, XDR, MDR will be a plus.

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