Principal Solutions Engineer
Acts as the technical authority for the Wiz platform and Wiz Outpost, helping prospects and customers design, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud security environments. The role requires deep multi-cloud, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, and CNAPP expertise, plus fluent English and Hebrew communication.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Serve as the go-to technical resource for sales and solutions engineering on Wiz Platform architecture, messaging, and presentations.
- Own Wiz Outpost investigations end to end, including IAM misconfigurations, networking failures, provisioning breakdowns, and scan degradation across customer environments.
- Root-cause and triage issues across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Alibaba Cloud.
- Partner with Engineering on escalations and issue reproduction.
- Distinguish between Wiz bugs, customer misconfigurations, and cloud-provider behavior, and translate technical gaps for customers and Engineering.
- Provide technical and business-relevant feedback to Product Management based on field engagements.
- Build and maintain investigation runbooks, internal knowledge-base content, and onboarding materials.
- Lead thought-leadership sessions sharing insights from customer engagements.
- Collaborate with Sales on strategic opportunities to demonstrate the platform’s technical and business value.
- Assist solutions engineers and prospects during proof-of-value processes with advanced use cases, installation, deployment, and troubleshooting.
- Work with the CTO, Field CTO, Customer Success, Product Management, and R&D organizations to maintain alignment across the sales process.
- Undergo security clearance if required.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years of experience designing and implementing public cloud architectures, with deep expertise across major cloud providers.
- Experience in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) space.
- Extensive knowledge of networking fundamentals, cloud networking concepts, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) models.
- Experience architecting, deploying, and troubleshooting complex Kubernetes and container environments across multiple distributions, including managed Kubernetes services, node groups, autoscaling, operators, pod scheduling, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Experience with developer workflows and tools, including Git, CI/CD, Helm, CloudFormation, and Terraform.
- Knowledge of Attack Surface Management (ASM) methodologies, network reconnaissance, cloud security, and vulnerability assessments.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical, business, and executive audiences and translate complex infrastructure issues into actionable customer guidance.
- Full professional fluency in written and spoken English and Hebrew.
Nice-to-haves
- Background in security products or cloud security posture, particularly workload scanning or disk snapshot pipelines.
- Experience supporting ISV or SaaS products deployed directly within customer cloud accounts.
Skills
AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Helm, CloudFormation, Terraform, IAM, Cloud Security, Vulnerability Assessment
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