Presales Consultant - Dubai

Location: Dubai United Arab Emirates Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds people cross borders energy become smarter and much more. More than 30000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things grant access to digital services analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure. Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1800 people across Egypt Iraq Kuwait KSA Lebanon Oman Pakistan Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabis airport.

Summary

• The PreSales consultant works closely with the regional Sales teams to act as a technical expert on projects involving data protection with both partners and customers.
• The Presales consultant will work with marketleading Encryption key Management and Data protection portfolio including Cipher Trust manager HighSpeed Encryption and HSMs.

Job Profile:

• Work closely with the Sales team to respond to partner and customer needs for our solutions.
• Get familiar with our products and provide you with all the knowledge that you need for your daytoday work.
• Work closely with our prospects to gather information on their usecase application environment and data flows to understand their needs fully.
• Be actively involved in the ProofofConcept phase of the sales engagement.
• Provide assistance and advice on configuration or customization to meet the prospects needs with our very flexible solutions.
• Interface with hundreds of 3rdparty applications and solutions and come across many applications integrations features and APIs which arent familiar.
• It is both the excitement and the challenge of this position the role suits someone keen to learn and interested in technology; the ability and desire to learn something new will help.
• The job is half about the soft skills and half about the technical skills; the candidate needs to have both.
• Travel will be mostly within the Middle East as we have customers across the focused Egypt and UAE territory we expect the candidate to be travelling approximately 50 of the time but it will vary some weeks more some weeks less.

Work Experience:

• 8 years experience in a customerfacing presales capacity in Information Security or a related field and skilled in presenting to both management (Clevel) and technical personnel (developers IT teams etc. with excellent verbal and objectionhandling skills
• Technically handson with skills in problemsolving architecture design and exposure to solution design
• Experience with crypto data protection and cloud security solutions.
• Encryption and Cryptography knowledge is required.
• Experience with public and private cloud services ideally across multiple CSPs (Azure AWS etc.
• Technical bachelors degree (Comp Science/Engineering IS Maths or similar) or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of Cryptography & Security; PKI digital signatures certificates TLS encryption and hashing techniques ideally working knowledge of APIs such as PKCS #11 REST Microsoft CSP/CNG OpenSSL Java JCA/JCE
• Experience with data discovery and classification solution when it comes to databases file servers network shares big data.
• Experience with data encryption and crypto key life cycle management when it comes to data at rest environments like databases file servers storage hybrid cloud big data.
• Experience with data in motion solutions when it comes WAN and SDN networks.
• Experience with scripting and software development on both Windows and Linux systems.
• Awareness of virtualization products and cloud service provider offerings such as VMWare HyperV Xen KVM Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure IBM Cloud Docker CloudFoundry or similar.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
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