Sales Engineer - DACH
FireMon
Sales & Business Development
Germany · Remote
Posted on Dec 4, 2025
Our Sales Engineers play a critical role in articulating, demonstrating, and translating FireMon’s value proposition to prospective customers and partners. Success in this role requires a deep technical understanding of the FireMon portfolio, strong communication skills tailored to the DACH market, and the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
About the role
- Conduct professional and independent discovery discussions, uncovering customer needs and regional market drivers.
- Prepare and deliver compelling presentations and demonstrations to prospective clients across the DACH region.
- Translate technical features into clear business value aligned with local security and compliance requirements.
- Document and guide customers through product evaluations, ensuring requirements are understood, environments are aligned, and success criteria are clearly defined.
- Support customers throughout the evaluation to drive adoption, track metrics, and demonstrate FireMon’s value.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact during the sales cycle, leading demos and building trusted advisor relationships.
- Maintain expert-level understanding of FireMon’s architecture, integrations, and security posture.
- Set up and maintain personal lab environments for testing, POCs, and competitive analysis.
- Work with DACH channel partners (VARs, MSSPs, and distributors) to strengthen their technical capability and joint go-to-market success.
- Lead online and onsite technical workshops, confidently engaging with customer engineering and security teams.
- Stay current on regional competitor technologies and provide feedback to product teams regarding market needs and roadmap gaps.
- Collaborate closely with engineering and support teams to troubleshoot and resolve customer challenges.
- Build strong relationships across technical, operational, managerial, and executive levels.
- Participate in joint customer engagements with Account Managers, Product Management, Engineering, or Support as needed.
- Accelerate sales cycles by anticipating and addressing technical objections.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or similar field.
- Fluent German language skills (speaking, reading, writing) are required.
- Strong English language proficiency for internal collaboration.
- 3+ years of experience in networking, firewall management, vulnerability/risk assessment, or related security technologies.
- Strong network security skills with hands-on experience in firewall platforms such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Juniper, etc.
- Familiarity with European security solutions and MSSP/partner ecosystems is highly beneficial.
- Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to quickly build rapport with technical and business audiences.
- Comfortable managing Q&A sessions and adapting explanations to various stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to coordinate internal and external resources.
- Hands-on problem-solving mindset with the ability to navigate technical blockers and ensure successful presales outcomes.
- Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to work independently when needed.
- Adaptability to fast-changing priorities and the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
- Highly self-sufficient, proactive, and positive in attitude.
- Willingness to travel within the DACH region (up to 25%).
- Professional demeanor, sound business judgment, and reliable performance.