PRE-SALES ENGINEER - CYBER-SECURITY (Chicagoland OR Greater Atlanta)

Chicago, Illinois, United States

West Chicago, Illinois, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States


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Type: Permanent

Experience: Entry-level Professional (Non-Manager, Less than 2 years experience)

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Category: Information Technology

Industry: Technology / Information Security

Salary: Lucrative base plus bonus (210K-230K OTE, uncapped), RSUs, generous 401K match, and great benefits Position Type: Full-Time/Perm

Reference ID: 1783

Date Posted: 06/21/2026

Shortcut: http://the-trevi-group.jobs.mrinetwork.com/GLehFz


CYBER-SECURITY PRE-SALES ENGINEER
Location: Remote (WHF) -- Chicagoland or Greater Atlanta area 
Company: Global Leader in Security Solutions (OEM; public company)
Compensation: Lucrative base plus bonus (210K-230K OTE, uncapped), RSUs, generous 401K match, and great benefits
Position Type: Full-Time/Perm
Position ID: 1783

 

Our client is a financially strong, publicly traded cybersecurity leader that helps enterprise organizations secure, monitor, and optimize complex hybrid cloud and network environments. Their technology is trusted by many of the world's largest companies.

 

Position Overview

We are seeking a Security Sales Engineer to support enterprise sales efforts by serving as the technical expert throughout the sales cycle. This individual will work closely with Account Executives to uncover customer challenges, deliver presentations and demonstrations, lead Proofs of Concept, and help customers evaluate security and network visibility solutions.

 

Why This Opportunity?

  • Work with industry-leading cybersecurity and network security technology
  • Strong company culture with excellent employee retention, company culture, career growth opportunity
  • Financially stable organization with a long history of success
  • Uncapped earning potential plus RSUs
  • Excellent benefits including 401(k) match, generous PTO, medical, dental, tuition reimbursement, life insurance, and disability coverage

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of Pre-Sales Engineering or Technical Sales experience
  • 5+ years supporting or selling cybersecurity, NDR, DDoS, or network security solutions
  • Strong enterprise customer-facing experience
  • Experience delivering technical presentations, demonstrations, and Proofs of Concept
  • Solid understanding of:
    • Network Security (incident response, NDR, EDR, XDR, SOAR, Cyber Kill Chains)
    • Cisco Networking (switches, routers, gateways)
    • TCP/IP and Network Infrastructure (BGP, LAN, WAN, BGP FlowSpec, NetFlow)
    • Cloud Networking Technologies
    • Virtualization, Linux and/or Windows environments
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Able to travel up to 30%+ in the upper mid-west region, at times

 

Preferred (not required)

  • Cisco certification (CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE)
  • Experience with RFPs/RFIs
  • Formal sales or pre-sales methodology training

This is an outstanding opportunity for a consultative, customer-facing security professional who enjoys helping enterprise organizations solve complex cybersecurity and network visibility challenges.

 

If this sounds like you, Contact me.

Contact:
Karel Lukas, Managing Partner
The Trevi Group
karel@thetrevigroup.com

If this position is not the right match for you... then who comes to mind that should hear about it. Any recommendations you provide will be tagged confidentially with your name so that if we place that person within one year, we will send you a $1,000 Amex Gift Card to thank you for your help. Just know that when we contact people that you recommend to us, we contact them confidentially and never mention your name. You referrals are handled in a completely confidential manner.

 

 

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