Job Specifications
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, enterprise, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity and data, and enabling cyber resilience. With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers hundreds of new threats each minute and validates billions of threat queries daily. The company has pioneered breakthrough innovations in antimalware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence and its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands. Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in 170+ countries with offices around the world. For more information, visit https://www.bitdefender.com
The Opportunity
Bitdefender is hiring a Sales Engineer to join our UK & Ireland Sales Engineering team, part of the EMEA & SEA SE organization. This is a customer-facing technical role where you’ll own the technical aspects of opportunities, acting as a trusted security advisor to customers and partners.
What You’ll Do
Own the technical side of sales opportunities, from discovery through validation
Deliver product demos, technical deep dives, and Proof of Concepts
Advise customers on how Bitdefender solutions address security, risk, and compliance challenges across on-prem and cloud environments
Lead technical discussions, solution design, and validation activities
Support RFPs, RFIs, and security questionnaires
Build strong technical relationships with customers and partners
Deliver partner technical training and enablement sessions
Engage with internal teams (Sales, Product, R&D) to support customer success
Participate in industry events and partner activities
What You Bring
2–3+ years’ experience in security pre-sales / sales engineering
Hands-on knowledge of Endpoint Security, EDR/XDR, SIEM, Email Security, and Threat Intelligence
Experience securing and supporting Windows, Linux, and macOS environments
Strong understanding of cloud platforms and security concepts (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
Knowledge of risk management, compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO, NIST, GDPR, DORA, NIS2), and security governance
Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Microsoft, Nutanix)
Familiarity with containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
Excellent English communication skills
Customer-focused, collaborative, and technically curious
Willingness to travel (~50%)
Why Bitdefender?
Global cybersecurity leader
Collaborative EMEA team
Real customer impact with cutting-edge security solutions
Apply now and help protect organizations across the UK & Ireland.
About the Company
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide.
Guardian over millions of consumer, business, and government environments, Bitdefender is the industry’s trusted expert for eliminating threats, protecting privacy and data, and enabling cyber resiliency.
With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers 400 new threats each minute and validates 30 billion threat queries daily.
The company has pioneered breakthrough inn...
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