Lead Solutions Engineer - Security

Join Pax8 as a Lead Solutions Engineer - Security in Kuala Lumpur and help shape the future of cloud security across Southeast Asia while enabling partners to thrive in the AI economy.
🚀 Shape Security Strategy Across Southeast Asia
This is more than a traditional pre-sales engineering role. As our regional Security subject matter expert, you'll influence technical strategy across multiple markets, support high-value opportunities, and elevate the capabilities of an entire Solutions Engineering community.
You'll work at the intersection of cybersecurity, cloud innovation, and artificial intelligence, partnering with vendors, partners, and internal stakeholders to solve complex business challenges. At Pax8, you'll grow alongside rapidly evolving technologies while helping shape how security solutions are adopted across one of the world's most exciting and dynamic regions.
🌏 Why Pax8?
Pax8 is transforming the way technology is bought, sold, and managed. As the global AI and cloud marketplace, we're building the future for managed service providers and SMBs worldwide. You'll be joining a company that combines high growth, entrepreneurial energy, and meaningful career opportunities, while being surrounded by talented people who genuinely care about one another and our partners.
🔑 What You'll Be Doing
🛡️ Regional Security Leadership

• Serve as the go-to security expert across Southeast Asia
• Drive technical excellence, consistency, and best practices across multiple markets
• Stay ahead of emerging cyber threats, cloud security innovations, and industry developments
• Build scalable frameworks, assets, and technical approaches that enable regional success

🤝 Technical Pre-Sales Excellence

• Support strategic opportunities requiring deep security expertise
• Lead discovery workshops that uncover business challenges and security objectives
• Deliver compelling demonstrations, technical presentations, and proof-of-concept engagements
• Design outcome-focused security solutions that help partners and customers achieve their goals

🎓 Enablement & Community Building

• Mentor and coach Solutions Engineers across the region
• Develop training materials, demonstration environments, playbooks, and reusable content
• Support onboarding and capability development initiatives
• Partner with vendors to strengthen technical readiness and certification attainment

🌐 Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work alongside sales leaders, vendor teams, marketing, and technical specialists
• Contribute to regional initiatives that drive partner success
• Share expertise across global technical communities
• Help align local execution with regional and global objectives

📈 The Impact You'll Make
Your expertise will directly influence regional growth, technical capability, partner success, and security adoption across Southeast Asia. You'll help create a more scalable, consistent, and technically mature Solutions Engineering function while becoming a trusted advisor to partners, vendors, and stakeholders throughout the region.
✅ What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
You bring:

• Proven experience within technical pre-sales, solution engineering, consulting, or related technology environments
• Strong expertise across cybersecurity, cloud technologies, infrastructure, Microsoft solutions, or adjacent security platforms
• Demonstrated success delivering workshops, technical presentations, demonstrations, and discovery engagements
• The ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value and compelling narratives
• Experience influencing stakeholders across multiple functions without direct authority
• A collaborative mindset with a passion for coaching and developing others
• Exposure to regional or multi-country environments
• Experience within channel, partner, or indirect sales ecosystems
• Microsoft Security, Azure, or equivalent vendor certifications are highly valued
• A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

You'll stand out if you've operated as a regional technical leader and enjoy helping others grow while maintaining deep subject-matter expertise.
🔒 Trust and Hiring
At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.
To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.
We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions