Cybersecurity Engineer

Technical Pre-Sales Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discovery and scoping conversations with prospective and existing customers.
• Translate business requirements into solution architectures across the team's portfolio — MXDR, EDR/XDR, SASE/ZTNA, email security, SSPM/DSPM, password management, brand protection, and security awareness training.
• Plan, set up, and lead customer proofs of concept and product demonstrations across the team's vendor stack.
• Define success criteria, run evaluations, and convert outcomes into proposal-ready findings — including bilingual (JP/EN) walkthroughs where required.
• Produce architecture diagrams, bills of materials, technical scope documents, assumptions, and high-level effort estimates supporting proposals and Statements of Work.
• Contribute technical content to RFI / RFP responses and customer-facing quote conditions.
• Maintain working-level technical relationships with strategic vendor sales-engineering counterparts.
• Stay current on product roadmaps, new features, and competitive positioning, and conduct comparative evaluations for new service offerings (e.g., DSPM, ASM, AI security).
• Ensure clean technical handover from pre-sales to the Delivery / Architect team — including scope, assumptions, customer expectations, and known risks.
• Serve as a primary pre-sales technical resource for accounts in the New York region — with emphasis on Japanese-headquartered financial institutions, trading companies, and insurers — while also supporting customers in other US regions as needed.
• Bring NYDFS Part 500, FFIEC, and SOX IT context into scoping and solution design for regulated customers.
• Build and maintain reusable solution templates, reference architectures, and pre-sales collateral.
• Conduct enablement sessions and product walkthroughs for the broader KDDI America sales organization, and support account planning by mapping customer environments to KAM's service offerings.
• Feed recurring pre-sales gaps, customer objections, and lost-deal technical reasons back into service improvement and roadmap discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the maturation of the team's pre-sales methodology.

Compensation Range: $70,000 - $100,000 (depending on experience)

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Vacation, sick, and floating holidays; plus 13 paid holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Wellbeing Solutions Program

KDDI America, headquartered in New York, is the US presence of Japan's KDDI Group, a Fortune Global 500 company and leading provider of international IT and communications services. KDDI America was established in 1989 and started as a telecommunications business supporting Japanese multinationals. We have now evolved into a company that provides networks, data centers, system integration, as well as managed service solutions across all industries. Our ability to customize solutions in a major city offering scalability and service that are unparalleled set KDDI America apart from the competition. We provide Ethernet network uptimes of more than 99.999% between regions and guaranteed high performance no matter where.