• Ensure governance, standardization and compliance of AI solutions in accordance with corporate guidelines; • Design architectures that guarantee data security and confidentiality, distinguishing corporate AI platforms from public AI tools; • Optimize and scale AI agent architectures for business processes, aiming for efficiency and standardization; • Promote responsible innovation, aligning AI effectiveness with ethical and corporate values.

• Own and lead pre-sales technical activities for assigned opportunities, including discovery, tailored demos, technical presentations, workshops, and proof-of-concepts. • Collaborate with Sales and Sales leadership to understand customer requirements, align technical execution to account strategy, and support revenue goals. • Conduct in-depth discovery sessions to uncover customer pain points, business drivers, decision criteria, and technical requirements. • Architect and propose solutions that integrate Cyara's platform with customers' existing technology stacks, ensuring seamless operation and optimization of their CX strategies. • Develop and present customized demonstrations of Cyara's platform that clearly connect customer challenges to business value. • Respond to technical inquiries, manage objections effectively, and provide expert guidance throughout complex sales cycles. • Represent Cyara in customer-facing events, including customer conferences, webinars, trade shows, and executive-level engagements. • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Implementation, Customer Success, and other internal teams to share customer feedback, resolve issues, and support smooth transitions from pre-sales to delivery. • Create and contribute to technical sales materials, documentation, best practices, case studies, and internal enablement resources that strengthen the Solution Architect team. • Mentor junior Solution Architects and share thought leadership, advanced strategies, and winning techniques across the team.

Position Location: Bengaluru India What you'll do as a Senior Strategic Solutions Engineer The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organisation is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solution Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, experienced and curious team. As a Senior Strategic Solutions Engineer, you are a customer facing hands-on technologist with credibility built on domain expertise across the region. You should have solid experience in influencing enterprise architecture design across various senior buyer personas both at customers and partner organizations. Your role will be to convince these decision makers of the long term value of thinking of Cloudflare as a strategic technology partner. You will work as a part of a highly visible structured pursuit team attached to designated strategic accounts, working to understand their unique business challenges and priorities with a goal of defining short and long term solution architecture with Cloudflare as a centrepiece. An equally important component of this role is the expectation that you scale your expertise and knowledge across the wider Pre Sales Solution Engineering organization. Specifically, we are looking for you to: - Build and maintain the long term technical relationship of key accounts, ensuring the successful design, proof and adoption of Cloudflare as a part of the customers critical infrastructure. - Identify and drive strategic conversations with key stakeholders with the purpose of increasing our reputation and authority within the business, and further establishing our footprint within the customers landscape. - Be the voice of the customer, engaging and influencing Product Management and Product Roadmap to serve their needs. - Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare within your field through the creation of professional content, including white papers, reference architectures, blog posts & demo proof of concept labs. - Represent and Evangelise Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and Industry focused events with thought leadership and expertise. - Apply in-depth vertical knowledge or domain expertise. Advise on best practices. Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience - 10+ years of relevant experience - Experience interacting with senior level/executives to communicate a message of network and security transformation - Fundamental understanding of customer network and application architectures. - Detailed understanding of workflow from user to application including hybrid architectures with Azure, AWS, GCP. - Secure Web Gateway, CASB, DLP, DNS, DNS over HTTPS - IdP/authentication, SAML, OTP - SaaS application integration and tenant controls - VPN and remote access challenges - SIEM and log analytics platforms - Client OS fundamentals and software distribution - Ability to jump in with hands-on configuration when needed Other desirable skills areas include: - Routing, subnetting, split tunnels. SD-WAN, local internet breakout - End user and application security risks - DDoS, malware, phishing, viruses - Knowledge of competitive market around CDN providers, Web application Firewall, Remote access solutions, Next generation Firewalls, CASB solutions , DDOS mitigations solutions, SD-WAN solutions, Secure Gateway solutions - Ideally knowledge of Cloudflare ZTNA solutions such as Teams, Access, Gateway, and Browser Isolation

• Serve as the primary technical SME for AIDR within the Corporate sales segment, supporting pre-sales engagements across a high-velocity, high-volume territory • Partner with Corporate AEs to qualify opportunities, lead technical discovery, and deliver compelling demonstrations that highlight CrowdStrike's AI-driven detection and response capabilities • Translate complex AI concepts into clear, business-relevant narratives tailored to technical buyers, security leaders, and executive stakeholders • Lead and support Proof of Value (POV) engagements, ensuring customers experience measurable outcomes tied to AIDR use cases • Act as a trusted technical advisor, guiding customers through their security transformation journey with CrowdStrike's AI-native platform at the center • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and the AIDR product team to provide feedback and influence roadmap priorities • Develop and deliver enablement content, competitive positioning, and technical collateral to uplift the broader Corporate SE team on AIDR topics • Stay current on the AI/ML threat landscape, adversary tradecraft, and emerging detection and response technologies to maintain SME-level expertise • Support regional field events, webinars, and customer briefings as an AIDR thought leader