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Sales Engineer - Focus Enterprise and Midmarket (m/f/d)

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Sales Engineer - Focus Enterprise and Midmarket (m/f/d)

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Hiring Remotely in Germany

Remote

Entry level

Security • Software

The Role

Supports enterprise and midmarket sales by translating customer requirements into Sophos cybersecurity solutions. Responsibilities include technical discovery, solution architecture, product demonstrations, evaluations, presentations, partner support, troubleshooting, and collecting partner feedback for product teams. The role requires expertise in firewalls, networking, endpoint security, MDR/SOC services, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture, along with strong communication, presentation, and customer-facing skills. Frequent travel across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is required.

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About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

As Sales Engineer with focus on Enterprise and Midmarket you are responsible for all technical aspects of supporting our sales team by determining technical requirements, matching them to Sophos solutions, making product trials and evaluations successful and generating business. You will present in front of, as well as train larger audiences.

What You Will Do:

Support sales to increase the company revenue using technical sales skills to convince prospects to purchase Sophos solutions by explaining complex topics to prospects
Assist technical staff from partner and customers in design and architecture of prospect solutions based on appropriate sizing and resiliency guidelines
Conduct demos, product- and company presentations - also to larger audiences - to help increasing the company revenue; support partners, sales or other audience
Query prospects to qualify sales opportunities and conduct analysis with technical staff to determine requirements and specifications of solutions
Support other departments by collecting and aggregating partner feedback and feeding e.g. into Product Management
Address partner questions and requirements and assist and manage frequent technical evaluations by working with these Partners

What You Will Bring:

Technical expertise in Enterprise Architecture components (network design, virtualization, directory services, firewalls, APIs, etc).
Strong technical expertise in Firewall and network products
Technical expertise in Endpoint products and MDR/SOC Services
Knowledge in AI technologies and Tools
Understanding the principles of public Cloud infrastructure Technologies
Experience in working and supporting channel Partners
Good presentation skills – ability to prepare and deliver an effective technical presentation to a technical or non-technical management audience unassisted
Ability to link product features to business Benefits and requirements
Ability to perform needs assessment, understanding technical needs/fit, pain points and competitive threats
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal also in English
Strong troubleshooting skills – escalating the issue with appropriate details if required. Offer prescriptive suggestions for future prevention.
Ability to be hands-on, working directly with partners and customers, handling technical requirements and configuration issues
A full driving license is required.
Willingness to frequent travel within Germany, Austria, Switzerland, occasionally international for conferences and training.

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What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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Skills Required

Technical expertise in enterprise architecture components, including network design, virtualization, directory services, firewalls, and APIs
Strong technical expertise in firewall and network products
Technical expertise in endpoint products and MDR/SOC services
Knowledge of AI technologies and tools
Understanding of public cloud infrastructure technologies
Experience working with and supporting channel partners
Strong technical presentation skills for technical and non-technical management audiences
Ability to connect product features to business benefits and customer requirements
Ability to perform needs assessments and evaluate technical fit, pain points, and competitive threats
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to provide prescriptive prevention recommendations
Hands-on ability to work with partners and customers on technical requirements and configuration issues
Full driving license
Willingness to travel frequently within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and occasionally internationally

Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.

Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.

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The Company

HQ: Abingdon

3,747 Employees

Year Founded: 1985

What We Do

Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.