Senior ZTNA Solutions Engineer

AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc.

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 175,000 - 225,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

AppGate is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to own the technical engagement with prospects for AppGate ZTNA, defining requirements, designing target-state architecture, and articulating business value to both technical and executive audiences.

The role partners with sales, solutions architecture, implementation, and partners to deliver complex integrated solutions, including AppGate ZTNA, with strong networking, identity, and cloud integration knowledge.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer or in an equivalent customer-facing technical role in cybersecurity, including 3+ years with ZTNA, SASE, remote access VPN or network security solutions.
Expert-level TCP/IP networking knowledge, including routing, NAT, DNS, firewall policy, split and full tunneling, and overlapping IP address space.
Deep knowledge of authentication protocols and services, including Active Directory/LDAP, RADIUS, SAML, OIDC and MFA, with hands-on experience integrating identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Ping Identity.
Strong understanding of PKI and encryption standards, including X.509 certificates, mutual TLS (mTLS), TLS, AES and RSA.
Demonstrated experience designing and articulating connectivity to public cloud services, including AWS, Azure and GCP.
Hands-on experience with network security solutions such as NGFW, VPNs and NAC.
Working knowledge of virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and AHV.
Proficiency with Linux administration and scripting against RESTful APIs in languages such as Python, PowerShell or JavaScript.
Proven ability to translate complex access requirements into least-privilege policy designs.
Working knowledge of the ZTNA, SASE and legacy VPN competitive landscape.
Executive presence and excellent written communication, including technical proposals, solution designs and RFP responses.

Responsibilities

Leads discovery to identify the business problems, technical requirements and constraints that shape an AppGate ZTNA solution, and documents them for the account team.
Partners with Account Executives on strategic and tactical account planning and owns the technical-win strategy for each opportunity
Hands off documented business drivers, requirements and constraints to the Solutions Architect who owns the PoC/PoV, and supports the evaluation through to technical win.
Designs AppGate ZTNA architectures, including Controller, Gateway and Connector placement, high availability, identity provider integration and the policy model (Sites, Policies, Entitlements and Conditions).
Sizes solutions and develops the technical configuration, including quoting and internal approvals as necessary.
Designs integrations with strategic partner platforms such as identity providers, endpoint detection and response (EDR), security information and event management (SIEM) and public cloud services.
Provides technical and design continuity at handoff to implementation teams, and supports new services, upgrades and expansion opportunities.
Leads technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, in-depth requirements workshops and demonstrations for audiences ranging from engineers to CISOs.
Articulates AppGate's direct-routed differentiation against cloud-proxied ZTNA, SASE and legacy VPN alternatives.
Serves as technical lead for RFP, RFI and security questionnaire responses.
Provides technical support at trade shows, customer events and other forums.
Represents the voice of the customer to Product Management and Engineering with clear, actionable field feedback.
Mentors other Sales Engineers and contributes reusable assets such as demos, reference designs and competitive talk tracks.
Delivers deep-dive technical training on AppGate products and solutions to internal and external stakeholders, and partners with the channel SE team to support partner enablement as needed.
Identifies novel ways to demonstrate and articulate new AppGate features, capabilities and integrations.