- Company Name
- Radware
- Job Title
- Sales Engineer, France
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Sales Engineer – France
**Role Summary**
Lead technical pre‑sales activities for cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, driving revenue and shaping customer solutions. Partner with account managers to translate business needs into Radware product architectures, deliver demos and proofs of concept, and manage the full proposal lifecycle.
**Expectations**
- Minimum 5 years of security-focused pre‑sales or engineering experience; 3+ years as a Sales Engineer in a security vendor or reseller.
- Strong technical and business acumen, fluent in French and English.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with Sales Account Managers to develop account strategy and sales methodology.
- Conduct technical discovery, design solution architectures and deliver presentations, demos, and POCs.
- Respond to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs with detailed technical documentation and proposals.
- Handle technical objections, provide competitive differentiators, and close deals.
- Partner with Marketing and internal teams to share solution updates and best‑practice content.
- Track pre‑sales activity in CRM, generate business analysis and reporting.
**Required Skills**
- Network and application security expertise: routing, switching, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, ADC, reverse proxy, CDN, caching, compression, firewalls, DDoS, WAF, API security, bot management.
- Knowledge of public cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Familiarity with vendor products: Akamai CDN/DDoS/WAF, Cisco ASA/PIX, Citrix NetScaler, Checkpoint FW, Corero DDoS, F5 ADC/DDoS/WAF, Fortinet FW/DDoS, Imperva/Incapsula, Palo Alto, etc.
- Strong presentation, communication, negotiation, and customer‑service skills.
- Independent, self‑motivated, and solution‑oriented.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CCNA/CCNP, CCSP, CISSP, or vendor‑specific security qualifications) are a plus.