Presales Engineer, France & Southern Europe

Role Overview

• Be the technical partner to the sales team
• Support AEs throughout the entire sales cycle.
• Shape technical deal strategy and articulate how Qevlar fits into the customer’s SOC.
• Build strong relationships with technical evaluators and decision-makers.
• Run impactful, tailored demos
• Deliver clear, story-driven demonstrations of Qevlar’s AI SOC agent.
• Adapt demos to customer environments (SIEM, XDR, EDR, identity, email, cloud).
• Highlight real investigation flows and show measurable value.
• Own Proof of Value (POV) projects
• Scope, execute, and deliver POVs autonomously.
• Demonstrate quantifiable impact: MTTR reduction, accuracy uplift, analyst-hours saved, auto-closure coverage.
• Coach and empower technical champions inside customer teams.
• Ensure smooth handover from POV to production.
• Understand customer architectures
• Analyse SOC tool stacks: SIEM, SOAR, XDR, EDR, identity, network, cloud.
• Map Qevlar’s capabilities and integrations to customer workflows.
• Identify technical blockers early and propose clear paths to resolution.
• Solve technical challenges & build trust
• Respond confidently to questions around AI explainability, data privacy, deployment models and compliance.
• Run hands-on sessions: API integration, investigation flows, architecture deep dives.
• Own the technical narrative and drive customer confidence.
• Stay close to product & the market
• Track new threats, SOC trends, and AI advancements.
• Act as the voice of the field for Product and Engineering.
• Contribute to demo assets, playbooks, integration guides, and reusable templates.

Requirements

• At least 2 years in cybersecurity, ideally inside a SOC or in presales for SIEM/XDR/SOAR
• Strong understanding of alert triage, incident response, and SOC workflows.
• Comfortable working with enterprise and MSSP environments.
• Experience with technical customer interactions (workshops, troubleshooting, POVs).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build technical champions.
• Fluency in English and French
• Fluency in another European language is a bonus.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Cyber Security

Benefits

• Opportunity for equity and early ownership
• A truly hybrid working culture
• Work on meaningful problems with real-world impact in cybersecurity