Pre-Sales Response Engineer

About Us Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.   Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.   Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

About the role

We are looking for an early-career Support Specialist to join our Global Sales Engineering team and support the end-to-end preparation, coordination, and maintenance of customer-facing technical response content. In this role, you will help respond to RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, security questionnaires, tenders, proposals, and related customer requests by working with approved content, internal knowledge sources, and subject matter experts across the business.   This role is ideal for someone who is organised, detail-oriented, curious, and interested in building experience at the intersection of sales engineering, proposal operations, cybersecurity, knowledge management, and AI-enabled productivity tools. You will play an important support role in helping Sales and Sales Engineering teams deliver accurate, consistent, and timely responses to customers and prospects.   This is a primarily remote role based in Manila, Philippines, with occasional in-office attendance required for business needs, training, team meetings, leadership requests, or company policy.   The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a global environment, communicating through Microsoft Teams and other collaboration tools, and managing priorities across different regions and time zones.

What you will do

• Assist with the preparation, coordination, formatting, review, and maintenance of RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, security questionnaires, tenders, proposals, and related customer response documents.