Lead Technologist, New Zealand
Check Point Software Technologies22 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Communicate Check Point solutions and cybersecurity industry trends to technical teams, executives, and customer stakeholders.
- Lead discussions on cybersecurity topics including Zero Trust, endpoint security, cloud security, blockchain, IoT, incident response, threat intelligence, security automation, and AI/ML.
- Translate New Zealand market systems engineering and customer vision into actionable plans supported by data, systems, and metrics.
- Design and architect complex network and security solutions and conduct hands-on demonstrations and proofs of concept.
- Provide technical leadership, customer advocacy, and guidance to systems engineers and strategic accounts.
- Influence product roadmaps and requirements by collaborating with product management, research and development, engineering, and senior leadership.
- Support upsell and cross-sell opportunities and influence potential strategic deals.
- Represent Check Point at industry events, forums, webinars, and other public engagements.
- Test and document new solutions and features and train field teams on implementation and use.
Requirements
- Extensive relevant professional experience engaging and influencing C-level executives, security architects, cloud security architects, DevOps teams, and software development groups.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to explain strategic and highly technical concepts.
- Customer-facing, outbound-oriented experience supporting security, application modernization, digital transformation, and cloud migration initiatives.
- Demonstrated thought leadership, mentoring, relationship-building, strategic thinking, and cross-functional influence.
- Experience creating and delivering technical content such as blogs, podcasts, videos, webinars, eBooks, conference presentations, and meetup talks.
- Hands-on experience implementing and driving projects and demonstrating expertise in Check Point technology.
- Experience building communities and planning, implementing, and evaluating events, projects, and training programs.
- Industry and relevant content-specific cybersecurity certifications.
- Experience with scalable systems and distributed computing or networking architectures.
- Familiarity with tiered applications, network load balancing across private and public infrastructures, command-line interfaces, CLI automation, and high- and low-level designs including rack-and-stack.
- Ability and willingness to travel for business purposes, estimated up to 40%.
Benefits
- Exposure to award-winning cybersecurity technologies and opportunities for creative programs and projects.
- Continuous learning, skill development, professional growth, and career advancement opportunities.
- Collaborative, supportive, and inclusive workplace culture.
- Opportunity to work on projects addressing real-world cybersecurity challenges.
- Auckland, New Zealand office location; business travel may be required up to 40%.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leading protector of digital trust, utilizing AI-powered cyber security solutions to safeguard over 100,000 organizations globally. Through its Infinity Platform and an open garden ecosystem, Check Point’s prevention-first approach delivers industry-leading security efficacy while reducing risk. Employing a hybrid mesh network architecture with SASE at its core, the Infinity Platform unifies the management of on-premises, cloud, and workspace environments to offer flexibility, simplicity and scale for enterprises and service providers.