Solutions Engineer, Middle East
Cloudflare
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 3-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry (early or mid-level experience).
- Fluent Arabic and English (written & spoken).
- Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritise between competing demands.
- Demonstrating empathy with customers and quickly identifying challenges and pain points they face.
- Understanding of “how the internet works”. For example:
- Know the differences between TCP & UDP, and understand what kinds of applications may favour one over the other;
- Can explain the difference between authoritative DNS & recursive DNS?;
- You understand the role of a firewall, why TLS (SSL) plays an increasingly important role on today's Internet, a solid understanding of HTTP and a willingness to dive deeper into the quirks of clients & servers alike;
- Understanding of how customers make buying decisions, how to explain ROI.
- A knowledge of the competitive landscape for one or more of: DDoS, CDN, Performance, DNS, Developer platform or Zero-Trust/SASE service providers.
- You're OK with some travel (10-15 days per quarter): we expect to travel to customer offices, conferences and/or do talks.
- Previous experience in a pre-sales SE or consulting role. (note: doesn't have to be in tech);
- Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills;
- Exposure to emerging technical landscape trends in Security such as Zero Trust.