Security Solutions Architect - SOLA

Descripción de la vacante

Security Solutions Architect – South America (SOLA)

Company: Qualys

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Territory: Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia (Other countries in South of Latin America)

Travel Requirements: Willingness and availability to travel regularly across the assigned territory.

About Qualys

At Qualys, innovation and teamwork come together to help organizations address today's most complex cybersecurity challenges.

Our unified Saa S platform brings together security detection, response, and remediation, enabling organizations to identify, prioritize, and eliminate cyber risks across their IT environments.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Security Solutions Architect to join our South America (SOLA) team, based in Bogotá, Colombia.

This position combines deep technical cybersecurity expertise with business acumen, working closely with enterprise customers, sales teams, and technical stakeholders across the region.

The ideal candidate will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers design and implement security solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes across vulnerability management, exposure management, cloud security, compliance, and risk reduction.

This is a regional, customer-facing position requiring regular travel from Bogotá to Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and other assigned markets as business needs evolve.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Skills

Infrastructure & Endpoint Security

Cloud Security

Application Security

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Join Our Team

We're looking for someone who can connect deep technical expertise with real-world business impact.

If you're passionate about cybersecurity, enjoy working with enterprise customers, and want to contribute to the growth of Qualys across South America, we'd like to hear from you.

• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to enterprise customers across vulnerability management, threat detection and response, compliance, and cloud and application security.
• Collaborate with Sales, Technical Account Managers (TAMs), and customer stakeholders to drive technical wins and expansion opportunities.
• Design end-to-end security architectures aligned with customer environments and business objectives.
• Lead Proof of Value (Po V) engagements to demonstrate platform capabilities and business impact.
• Translate customer requirements into scalable technical architectures and deployment strategies.
• Identify security gaps and recommend solutions to improve customers' security posture.
• Deliver executive workshops, architecture sessions, technical presentations, and customer briefings.
• Develop reference architectures, best practices, and reusable technical resources.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to share field insights and influence product development.
• Stay current with emerging cyber threats, security technologies, and industry trends.
• Vulnerability management, patch management, and asset discovery.
• Security policy compliance and configuration management.
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
• AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), misconfiguration management, and risk mitigation.
• Cloud identity, workload, and container security.
• Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST).
• API security, container security, and Dev Sec Ops practices.
• Familiarity with OWASP and MITRE frameworks.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong background in customer-facing technical roles, including pre-sales, post-sales, consulting, or technical advisory.
• Proven ability to design and communicate complex enterprise security architectures.
• Experience leading technical evaluations, customer engagements, and high-impact security initiatives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Strong ownership, analytical thinking, and ability to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Based in Bogotá, Colombia, with availability for regular regional travel, particularly to Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and throughout Colombia.
• Hands-on experience with Qualys or comparable enterprise cybersecurity platforms.
• Knowledge of industry security standards and frameworks, including ISO 27001, NIST, and CIS.
• Experience mapping technical security controls to regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Experience collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to translate customer feedback into product improvements.