Cybersecurity Engineer
About the job
- Ability to translate business requirements into solution architectures across security services, including managed extended detection and response, endpoint detection and response/extended detection and response, secure access service edge/zero trust network access, email security, security posture management/data security posture management, password management, brand protection, and security awareness training.
- Ability to plan, set up, and lead proofs of concept and product demonstrations, define success criteria, run evaluations, and turn outcomes into proposal-ready findings, including Japanese/English walkthroughs where required.
- Ability to produce architecture diagrams, bills of materials, technical scope documents, assumptions, and high-level effort estimates for proposals and Statements of Work.
- Ability to contribute technical content to requests for information and requests for proposals, and to customer-facing quote conditions.
- Ability to maintain technical relationships with vendor sales-engineering counterparts and stay current on product roadmaps, new features, and competitive positioning.
- Ability to evaluate new service offerings, including data security posture management, attack surface management, and AI security.
- Ability to hand over technical scope, assumptions, customer expectations, and known risks from pre-sales to delivery, and provide technical clarification during early delivery phases.
- Knowledge of NYDFS Part 500, FFIEC, and SOX IT context for scoping and solution design for regulated customers.
- Ability to build and maintain reusable solution templates, reference architectures, and pre-sales collateral, and conduct enablement sessions and product walkthroughs.
- Ability to support account planning by mapping customer environments to service offerings.
- Ability to provide technical pre-sales support for accounts in the New York region and customers in other US regions as needed.
- Lead technical discovery and scoping conversations with prospective and existing customers.
- Plan, set up, and lead customer proofs of concept and product demonstrations; define success criteria, run evaluations, and convert outcomes into proposal-ready findings.
- Produce architecture diagrams, bills of materials, technical scope documents, assumptions, and high-level effort estimates supporting proposals and Statements of Work.
- Contribute technical content to request for information and request for proposal responses and customer-facing quote conditions.
- Maintain working-level technical relationships with strategic vendor sales-engineering counterparts; track product roadmaps, new features, and competitive positioning; conduct comparative evaluations for new service offerings.
- Ensure clean technical handover from pre-sales to the Delivery/Architect team, including scope, assumptions, customer expectations, and known risks; participate in kickoff sessions and provide technical clarification through early delivery phases.
- Serve as a primary pre-sales technical resource for New York-region accounts, emphasizing Japanese-headquartered financial institutions, trading companies, and insurers, and support customers in other US regions as needed.
- Bring NYDFS Part 500, FFIEC, and SOX IT context into scoping and solution design for regulated customers.
- Build and maintain reusable solution templates, reference architectures, and pre-sales collateral.
- Conduct enablement sessions and product walkthroughs for the broader sales organization and support account planning by mapping customer environments to service offerings.
- Feed recurring pre-sales gaps, customer objections, and lost-deal technical reasons into service improvement and roadmap discussions.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the maturation of the team's pre-sales methodology.
About the company
KDDI provides telecommunications services in Japan for individuals and businesses. In the Personal segment, it offers mobile and fixed-line services plus finance, entertainment, and education to build an ecosystem around telecoms. In the Business segment, it delivers ICT solutions, mobile services, and data center services, using 5G, IoT, cloud, and network infrastructure to help enterprises digitally transform. Its approach blends telecom connectivity with value-added services to serve both consumer and enterprise markets, aiming to create value through an integrated ecosystem and global reach.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
1984
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- KDDI's July 28, 2026 AI startup program deepens startup deal flow and cloud demand.
- Au Starlink Direct expanded to the Philippines and New Zealand on August 31, 2026.
- KDDI's FY2026 results showed ¥756.7 billion net profit despite governance cleanup charges.
What critics are saying
- KDDI disclosed a July 2026 breach exposing 12.23 million emails and 7.62 million passwords.
- KDDI's February 2026 fictitious-sales probe triggered a ¥1.6 billion hit and governance overhaul.
- Repeated security and accounting failures destroy trust and cripple KDDI's enterprise platform sales.
What makes KDDI unique
- KDDI and Okinawa Cellular launched au Starlink Direct, Japan's first direct-to-device satellite service.
- KDDI's July 28, 2026 Google AI Futures Fund partnership bundles sovereign GPU infrastructure.
- KDDI's May 12, 2026 Coincheck alliance extends telecom distribution into digital assets.
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