Senior Solutions Engineer

Darktrace has more than 2,500 employees located globally.

For over a decade, Darktrace has pioneered a proactive, AI-native approach to security.

What will I be doing:

The Senior Solutions Engineer (SE) role is a dynamic and varied customer-focused technical position.

Darktrace is currently expanding its technical team in Italy in order to specifically target onboarding the largest Strategic customers in the country.

This is a hybrid role, 2x days per week from our Rome/or Milan office and there is an approximately 20% travel expectation.

As a Senior SE, in our EMEA Strategic team, you will be designing and managing pre-sales Darktrace deployments alongside your sales counterpart.

Additional responsibilities include the following:

• Design and document success criteria and business case materials,
• Support responses to RFIs/RFPs,
• Design deployment plans and architectures for customers alongside the implementation team,
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and technologies in order to differentiate against competitors and establish opportunities to integrate,

What experience do I need:

We welcome applications from those with experience in a customer cyber role or software sales engineering role with demonstrated success in selling.

You will also ideally meet the following requirements:

• Experience selling and ideally implementing security operations and technology in large, complex enterprises in multiple industry verticals, across a wide range of technology platforms useful;
• Strong knowledge of both on-premise and cloud networking,
• Strong knowledge in the cyber security domain strongly preferred,
• Experience and proficiency in public speaking and can hold own in senior-level presentations and discussions,
• Experience defining security strategies, and assisting with driving aligned outcomes,
• Practical experience / understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs),
• Certification: Security+, CISSP, CEH, Pen Testing, Incident Response all useful but not critical,
• A Cloud Security qualification is useful but not critical,
• Degree in STEM field preferred, other analytical studies considered

Benefits we offer:

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service,
• Additional day off for your birthday,
• Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children,
• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary,
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme,
• Enhanced family leave,
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program,
• Cycle to work scheme.