Principal Solutions Engineer - India

Wiz Wiz · Enterprise · India · SE

This role focuses on providing technical and business feedback to Product Management, collaborating with sales teams, assisting with Proof of Concepts (POCs), leading thought leadership sessions, and messaging platform capabilities to prospects and customers. It requires a strong technical background in IT, InfoSec, Cloud, and DevOps, with expertise in public cloud architecture and Kubernetes. The role also involves coding and understanding developer workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical and business-relevant feedback into Product Management based on field engagements to improve Wiz’s position and value messaging to prospects and clients.
  2. Collaborate with Wiz sales teams on strategic opportunities in demonstrating the business and technical value of the Wiz platform.
  3. Assist SEs and prospects during the POC process with advanced use cases, installation/deployment, and troubleshooting.
  4. Lead regular thought leadership sessions with the field teams sharing insights and approaches derived through customer engagement to improve our effectiveness in messaging and delivering value to prospective clients and existing customers.
  5. Assist in messaging and selling Wiz platform capabilities to prospects and customers.

Skills

Required

  • Strong technical background with a solid understanding of core IT, InfoSec, Cloud, and DevOps concepts.
  • Proven skillset and experience with a career path focused on public cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • SME level knowledge of Kubernetes and containers with the ability to architect and troubleshoot complex environments.
  • Ability to lead conversations focused at various audiences including technical, business, and executive level.
  • Experience and ability to code and understand developer workflows. Git, CI/CD, helm, terraform etc

Nice to have

  • Be passionate in regard to continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership.