Security Architect, AMS

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company's cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler's purpose-built security platform puts a company's defenses and controls where the connections occur-the internet-so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

A Zscaler Security Architect is an industry expert who advises, encourages and challenges customers and prospects to evolve their cybersecurity architecture from one based on legacy Network and Perimeter architectures to one based on Zero Trust Architecture design principles leveraging the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE).

Zscaler Security Architects help our customers Secure, Simplify and Transform. Examples of related topics are...

• Security & Network Transformation
• Application and Infrastructure Modernization
• The Modern Workplace with hybrid working

The Security Architect is primarily a pre-sales role that will facilitate consultative discovery and design workshops meant to uncover a customer's business requirements and their current-state architecture. The information uncovered is used to design a high-level Zero Trust Architecture including a phased adoption roadmap expressing how the customer can transform to a Zero Trust Architecture future-state over time.

The Security Architect needs to engage across customer functional teams, as well as Zscaler partner and internal teams, to develop rapport and to ensure success. Interactions will range across the customer organizational structure from customer engineer to customer executive.

These efforts require acollaborative,seasoned industry professional who can code-switch seamlessly between CXO and IT Operations audiences. The candidate should convey and be able to balance a combination of executive presence and deep technical credibility. The ability to adopt a confident, yet consultative customer facing persona is key. Think of "executive presence" plus humility.

Successful candidates typically have15 years of relevant industry experience, or 10 years of experience and an advanced degree in domains such as Networking and Cybersecurity, and hold or have held advanced relevant industry certifications.

• Is a Technology Evangelist who understands the competitive landscapes, industry trends and dynamics as they relate to Zscaler's value proposition.
• Possesses a strong business acumen, can think on their feet and are able to pivot and control the conversation during meetings to achieve desired outcomes.
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to make the complex simple.
• Is self-aware, effectively balances their qualities of IQ, EQ, SQ and AQ appropriately.
• Maintains advanced product expertise and solution development capability, delivering on advanced solution selling.
• Understands end-to-end Enterprise Architectures with an extensive understanding of complex Networking and Security environments. Additional Cloud expertise and knowledge of other adjacent domains is a plus.
• Has hands-on experience with various technologies including TCP/IP protocol stack, DNS, BGP routing, MPLS, SD-WAN, GRE, IPsec, Layer-7 firewalls, Web Proxies, Load Balancing and Data Loss Prevention among others.
• Is well versed in NIST Zero Trust Architecture, is familiar with applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, and best practices, including GxP, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, CISA.
• Assists with educating, influencing, mentoring and coaching activities within the team and across the organization.
• Adopts a coach / mentor mindset, sharing both technical and sales experience to up-level our collective team through on the job training, enablement and collaboration.
• Provides senior thought leadership. Internally - Influencing the organization and company direction. Externally - Using customer / partner facing venues (events, social media, etc.) to influence industry direction.

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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