Your role in a nutshell

Check Point is leading the next paradigm shift in cloud security and is looking for an experienced Security professional to help growing the business for Check Point Growth Technologies. (CloudGuard and Sandblast). As the Security Architect, you will have the exciting opportunity to work closely with leading Enterprises customers, helping them to secure their environments and cloud infrastructure.

You will be responsible for

• Acting as a subject matter expert in Japan region to support growing the threat prevention business
• Driving the Check Point CloudGuard sales for Enterprises that are building Private Cloud (based on VMWare NSX or Cisco ACI) or Public Cloud (Azure, AWS or Google)
• Providing technical support to all local offices, customers and main partners within the region
• Evangelizing Check Point CloudGuard and Sandblast technologies
• Developing existing and new accounts in conjunction with overlay team and local sales office
• Responding to RFI's & RFP's
• Conducting Proof of Concept
• Providing training, technology updates, seminars and workshop for main partners and prospects
• Project management and reporting
• Product and solution presentations
• Active participation in IT security events and trade shows
• Working closely with product management team in HQ to develop road map

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of Security Engineers in the Japan region
• Hands-on in pre-sales activity and channel enablement.
• Work to develop the engineering programs together with the sales team and other stakeholders to drive our go-to-market strategy
• Provide technical pre-sales assistance for our partners and through our partners to our customers.
• Develop existing and new partners in conjunction with the local sales team.
• Respond to RFI's & RFP's with our Partners and Check Point pre-sales activities.
• Technical Product and solution presentations
• Active participation in IT security events and trade shows
• Develop a solution by translating a customer’s business requirements into an integrated technical solution.
• Technically close complex and competitive opportunities, through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Identify revenue impacting support escalations and engage proactively with required parties (internal/external) to ensure timely resolution and satisfactory resolution.
• Work independently and collaboratively with Sales and Management, exercising judgment in developing people, technical requirements, and evaluation criteria.
• Proactively engage and communicate with Product Management, Business units, Sales and Marketing
• Broad understanding of Security Engineering Landscape / IT Security industry, past, present, and future

Main responsibilities will include:

• Act as a trusted advisor to the business in all HR related matters within assigned region
• Main point of contact for managing the full employee life cycle from recruitment to the full spectrum of Human Resource operations.
• Provides HR policy guidance and interpretation as well as designing and implementing relevant HR programs to promote employee development, engagement and retention
• Manage and resolve employee relations matters
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees and partner with the legal department as and when required
• Partner and support the Managers on business transformation, workforce planning, performance management and succession planning
• Work with Learning Team to promote reskilling and upskilling of workforce
• Promote company’s reputation as “great place to work”