While this is a fully remote role, we are only looking to hire in Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Consultation: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to prospective customers, understanding their requirements and articulating how Portnox's solutions can address their challenges.
- Product Demonstrations: Conduct compelling product demonstrations, showcasing the features and benefits of our solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Solution Design: Collaborate with customers and internal teams to design and propose tailored solutions that meet specific customer needs.
- Sales Support: Assist the sales team in responding to RFPs, preparing technical proposals, and providing technical input during the sales cycle.
- Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and partners, ensuring a deep understanding of their business objectives and technical environments.
- Training and Enablement: Provide technical training and support to customers, partners, and internal sales personnel to ensure successful adoption and utilization of Portnox solutions.
- Feedback Loop: Communicate customer feedback and insights to product management and engineering teams to inform product development and enhancements.
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a sales engineering or similar technical role, preferably within the cybersecurity or network access control domain.
- Cybersecurity experience required.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in network security concepts, including authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and solutions.
- Experience with zero trust security frameworks and network access control solutions.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to addressing customer challenges.
- Travel: Willingness to travel as needed to support sales activities and customer engagements.
- Experience with Portnox or similar network access control solutions.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCNP, or equivalent.
- Experience working with cloud platforms and services.
Why Join Us
- Opportunity to make a significant impact on the operations of the company.
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
About
Portnox is a cloud-native enterprise access control provider that helps organizations secure every identity - human and non-human - across networks, applications, and infrastructure. As identities, devices, and workloads multiply across modern environments, Portnox enables continuous access verification based on identity context, device posture, and risk signals. Its unified platform brings together passwordless authentication, access control, continuous policy enforcement, and automated response through a single policy engine. Portnox gives security and IT teams real-time visibility into everything connecting and the ability to quickly restrict, quarantine, or revoke non-compliant access. Today, Portnox actively manages more than one million devices worldwide, secures 40 million authentication sessions, and blocks over one million unauthorized access attempts every day. Learn more at www.portnox.com and follow Portnox on LinkedIn.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 3-5 years experience in a sales engineering or similar technical role (preferably in cybersecurity or network access control).
- Cybersecurity experience (required).
- Proficiency in network security concepts, including authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA).
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and solutions.
- Experience with zero trust security frameworks and network access control solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel as needed to support sales activities and customer engagements.
- Experience with Portnox or similar network access control solutions.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP or CCNP.
- Experience working with cloud platforms and services.
Portnox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Portnox and has not been reviewed or approved by Portnox.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes company‑paid premiums for an individual high‑deductible plan and multiple medical options, with disability and life insurance covered by the employer. Feedback suggests this reduces monthly costs while preserving choice and core protections.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off policies include unlimited vacation for U.S. employees and dedicated emergency paid leave. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave supports work‑life balance during both planned and unplanned needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave are provided in the U.S. to support families. Feedback suggests these provisions are meaningful additions to the total rewards package.
Portnox Insights
What We Do
The connected world is evolving. Every day. Every hour. Every minute. More devices are connecting to the corporate network from remote locations as employees travel or work remotely. Do you know how many PCs, tablets and smartphones are connected to your organization’s network right now? Both on and off campus? How many Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as printers, smart TV and HVAC systems are hooking up? Does your organization have a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy at play? Do you have guest and contractor connections? All of these expose the corporate network to threats and make the task of securing it more complex. Portnox provides next-generation network access control and management solutions that enable organizations to reduce risk and enforce security policy compliance. The company’s products provide automated security, visibility and control for every device accessing the network including Internet of Things (IoT), BYOD, mobile and unmanaged systems. Portnox products are easy to deploy and manage, scalable and adapt to evolving customer needs. The company has been recognized for its innovations by Info Security Products Guide, Cyber Security Excellence Awards, IoT Innovator Awards, Computing Security Awards, Best of Interop ITX and Cyber Defense Magazine. Portnox has offices in the U.S. and EMEA. Visit us at www.portnox.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
