Solution Architect, Cloud, Mid-Atlantic

Check Point Software; Washington (Washington County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software is seeking a seasoned CloudGuard-focused engineer to drive pre‑sales and technical engagements across the US. You will partner with sales, cloud, DevOps, and security teams to tailor security architectures, demonstrate value, and guide customers through PoCs and RFP responses.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in engineering/pre‑sales, deep cloud security expertise, and a track record in multi‑cloud environments. Travel up to 20% is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering and pre-sales experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for technology and risk assessments.
• Willing to travel 10–20% within the United States.
• Deep expertise in Cloud Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls, Cloud Networking.
• Understanding of container and serverless architectures.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Certifications such as CCNP/CISSP/CCSA/CCSE/CCVSE/CCIE are highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with sales teams and partners to identify CloudGuard opportunities.
• Collaborate with cloud, DevOps, and DevSecOps leaders to define strategies and communicate value.
• Demonstrate how CloudGuard protects data and cloud workloads.
• Educate customers on technical and business challenges and CloudGuard solutions.
• Lead meetings to identify cloud-related needs and provide PoC options.
• Participate in cybersecurity events, blogs, and whitepapers.
• Respond to RFIs & RFPs; define cloud information security strategies.

Skills

Cloud security

Pre-sales

Multi-cloud

Public cloud

Security architecture

Tools

CloudGuard

Job description

Why Join Us At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Why Join Us?

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You'll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We're proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you're excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the sales teams and partners to identify CloudGuard opportunities in existing and prospect accounts
• Work with cloud, devops and devsecops leaders in existing and new clients to define new strategies, and develop and communicate CloudGuard's value propositions
• Demonstrate how the CloudGuard portfolio can help keep organizations safe from threats and protect their data and cloud workloads
• Work closely with account teams, customers and partners to educate them on how the CloudGuard family of security solutions can solve the technical, operational and business challenges that many organizations face
• Drive meetings with potential and existing customers to identify their cloud related needs and problems and provide appropriate CloudGuard solutions
• Address technical questions, offer insight into best practices and manage Proof-of-Concepts
• Active participation in cybersecurity events, blogs, whitepapers
• Respond to RFI's & RFP's
• Define cloud information security strategies, including guiding principles and future state vision, ensuring that the strategic objectives are aligned with business goals
• Assessment of security architecture, analysis of issues and development of recommended course of corrective action

Qualifications

• 5+ plus years of engineering and pre-sales experience
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills required to conduct technology and risk assessments, gap analysis, identifying (re)engineering or (re)architecting initiatives
• Eagerness to contribute autonomously and in a team-oriented environment across an assigned region of the United States (Travel 10% to 20%)
• Good understanding of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), typical deployment scenarios, automation/orchestration and multi-cloud deployments
• Deep expertise in Cloud Firewalls, Native and 3rd party
• Deep expertise in Web Application Firewalls
• Deep expertise in Cloud Networking
• Understanding of container and serverless architectures
• Ability to create an end-to-end cloud security solution for a customer's environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Relevant certifications highly preferred, e.g. CCNP / CISSP/ CCSA / CCSE / CCVSE/CCIE
• Strong experience in technology-based tools or methodologies to review, design and/or implement enterprise programs
• Effective time management skills by completing assignments within budgets and calendar schedules; identify opportunities to improve engagement profitability
• Proven track record in defining and implementing cyber risk management structures, governance models, organizational transformations in the areas of cyber security management