Sales Engineer

About the role

Forcepoint is seeking a high‑impact Sales Engineer to join its team in Oman. You will act as the technical bridge between sales, partners, and enterprise customers, guiding complex security transformations across the region.

Key responsibilities

• Support sales teams to achieve and exceed revenue targets.
• Lead technical discussions, map customer requirements to Forcepoint solutions (data protection, cloud, email, AI, web, and network security).
• Deliver presentations, demos, architecture workshops, and white‑boarding sessions for both technical and executive audiences.
• Provide pre‑sales engineering support, solution design, and security architecture consulting.
• Design and execute PoCs, pilots, and production evaluations in customer environments.
• Collaborate on integrations across cloud and on‑premise infrastructures in Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
• Contribute to RFI/RFP responses with architecture diagrams and technical documentation.
• Maintain demo environments and lab infrastructures for cloud‑native security use cases.
• Represent the company in customer meetings, partner engagements, and industry events.
• Provide structured feedback to product and engineering teams on market trends.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, preferably in pre‑sales, solution engineering, or security consulting.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security and network architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with major security platforms.
• Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals and security protocols.
• Experience with VPN technologies and traffic‑forwarding mechanisms.

Required skills

• Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Broadcom (Symantec/Blue Coat), McAfee, Forcepoint technologies
• TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP
• TLS/SSL, firewalls, NAT/SNAT
• IPsec, site‑to‑site VPN, remote‑access VPN
• ICAP, WCCP, PBR
• Proxy‑based architectures, secure web gateways
• Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and data classification concepts