IT Security Pre-Sales Engineer

The Opportunity: We are seeking an IT Security Pre-Sales Engineer to help customers identify cybersecurity needs and shape practical, scalable solutions. This customer-facing role partners with Technologent’s sales organization to connect security requirements, business priorities, and risk-management objectives with appropriate technology and services.

Working with Account Executives, technical and delivery teams, and security partners, the engineer leads discovery, develops solution architectures, presents recommendations, and supports opportunities from initial qualification through technical validation and close.

• Role: IT Security Pre-Sales Engineer

• Experience: 5+ years in cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, technical pre-sales, solution architecture, consulting, or a related customer-facing technical role

• Location: Dallas, TX

• Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted cybersecurity advisor and partner with Account Executives to identify customer initiatives, technical requirements, business risks, and security opportunities.

• Lead customer discovery, assessments, workshops, and architecture discussions; evaluate current environments and translate business, security, and regulatory needs into solution recommendations.

• Engage stakeholders from security engineering and architecture through IT leadership and executive teams; communicate technical concepts and business value clearly.

• Support opportunity strategy and qualification, technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, RFP/RFI responses, security questionnaires, and customer objections.

• Support Proof-of-Concept and Proof-of-Value activities, technical validation, and competitive sales situations; communicate opportunity status, risks, dependencies, and next steps to the sales team.

• Design practical, scalable security architectures across security operations (including SIEM and SOAR), endpoint (EDR/XDR), network (including NDR, firewalls, and segmentation), identity (IAM/PAM), Zero Trust, SASE, cloud, data protection, vulnerability management, email, application/API security, threat detection, cyber resilience, and emerging AI security.

• Develop high-level architectures, bills of materials, licensing requirements, solution components, and implementation assumptions; help define proposal and SOW scope, dependencies, deliverables, and exclusions.

• Ensure proposed solutions are technically feasible and can transition effectively to implementation and operational support; collaborate with delivery teams to confirm requirements, scope, and commitments.