Technical Support Engineer

Fortinet, Inc.; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 50.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive Total Rewards package

Zusammenfassung

A leading cybersecurity company is seeking a Technical Support Engineer in Frankfurt, Germany. This role involves troubleshooting Fortinet firewalls, providing customer education, and managing case communications. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in the networking or security industry, strong knowledge in TCP/IP, and excellent problem-solving skills. Proficiency in English and German is preferred. This position offers a competitive Total Rewards package and a supportive work environment.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience in networking or security industry.
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Aufgaben

• Conduct basic troubleshooting on Fortinet products.
• Gather and analyze configuration information.
• Manage customer communications and expectations.

Kenntnisse

Networking

Troubleshooting

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Industry certificates (FCP, CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, CISSP)

Tools

Fortigate

Firewalls

IPS

SQL

Jobbeschreibung

Reporting to TAC Manager based in Frankfurt, Germany, you would act as the main contact point for our customers and partners for technical break/fix or configuration inquiries for Fortinet firewalls.

In this position, the Technical Support Engineer will:

• Conduct basic troubleshooting on the core Fortinet products, specifically Fortigate, ensuring prompt resolution of customer issues.
• Gather, analyze, and provide recommendations for configuration information, helping customers optimize their systems.
• Collect and analyze customer system information, identifying areas for improvement and suggesting corrective actions.
• Offer customer education to bridge knowledge gaps in networking, product understanding, and related areas.
• Consult technical documentation, bulletins, and release notes to address known issues and provide effective solutions.
• Reproduce customer environments in lab settings, isolate and resolve problems, and propose innovative solutions.
• Follow up on technical cases, ensuring proper escalation, case management, and timely resolution.
• Manage customer communications and expectations throughout the case lifecycle, leading customer management meetings for escalations.

Who We Are Looking for:

We are seeking insightful, inclusive connectors to join our team. You foster collaborative partnerships by the ways in which you seek to understand others, work together, and diagnose complex organizational variables, issues, and opportunities. You have an ongoing sense of drive, informed urgency, and you are attentive to detail. You enjoy implementing holistic solutions that meet and scale with the strategic needs of the organization.

• 5+ years of experience in networking or security industry.
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP.
• Hands on experience with security devices Firewalls/IPS/Mail Security Gateways.
• Proficient spoken and written English and German (is a plus).
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, enabling effective issue resolution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, facilitating clear and effective customer interactions.
• Ability to work in multicultural team environment.
• Familiar with dynamic routing protocols and its implementation (OSPF, BGP).
• Experience with VPNs (IPSec, SSL, L2TP, GRE).
• Knowledge of database maintenance and SQL.
• Familiar with Web application security and vulnerabilities (experience with exploits is plus)
• Having any of industry certificates (FCP, CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, CISSP).

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We offer a competitive Total Rewards package to support you in managing your overall health and financial well-being, flexible work arrangements, and a supportive work environment. If you aspire to experience a challenging, enjoyable, and rewarding career journey, we invite you to consider joining us and bringing solutions that make meaningful and lasting impact to our 660,000+ customers around the globe.

About Us

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.