Cloud Sales Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview:

CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity, is seeking a Cloud Sales Engineer with significant Cloud architecture best practices and cyber security domain expertise to support our Enterprise team. As a Cloud Sales Engineer, you will be a trusted advisor to local CrowdStrike Sales teams, Customers, and Partners within your territory. This role is for a technologist who will apply their specialist knowledge to integrate CrowdStrike technologies and products with various cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and enterprise Kubernetes distributions like Cloud provider services and Red Hat OpenShift.

You will collaborate with internal CrowdStrike teams, strategic cloud partners, and various open-source communities and standards bodies related to secure cloud computing. Your contributions will include helping establish and define the technical nature of CrowdStrike’s cloud partner initiatives and programs, creating technical reference architectures, building training for CrowdStrike technical staff, and cloud sales enablement.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure effective technical field sales coverage of the account base.
• Engage with core account sales teams to drive strategic account plans and objectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to establish key stakeholders and business-line owners.
• Act as an interface between field/customer requirements and CrowdStrike Product and Engineering teams.
• Provide feedback to engineering teams on customer requirements and customer adoption of our products.
• Drive customer and partner meetings through sales calls, relationship building, solution selling, and problem resolution.
• Help build field enablement documentation and training that is sector specific.
• Serve as a cloud subject matter expert and present at industry conferences and CrowdStrike marketing events.
• Provide guidance on complex technical issues utilizing in-depth knowledge of the company, products, industry, and solutions.
• Deliver development and improvement of methods, techniques, and evaluation processes for CrowdStrike solutions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years or equivalent experience in consulting or sales engineering roles, particularly in Cloud and Cyber Security.
• Technical sales experience in Cloud Security Posture Management solutions.
• Technical sales experience in Cloud Workload Protection security solutions.
• Technical sales experience in Kubernetes container solutions.
• Cloud Service Provider Certification.
• Ability to understand complex cloud architectures and eco-systems.
• Technical understanding of incident response, computer forensics, network administration and management, and endpoint security technologies in relation to cloud strategy.
• Motivated with excellent organizational skills.
• Strong communicator – written, verbal, and presentation.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to implement systematic approaches to scale within a fast-paced environment.

Company Information:

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community, and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.