Senior SASE Architect for Telco & MSSP

Fortinet, Inc.; France; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet, Inc. is seeking a Senior Consulting Systems Engineer to drive SASE-based solutions with Telco and MSSP partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. You will architect and launch multi-tenant offerings and enable field SEs to win competitive deals across the EMEA region.

You will lead technical governance, ensure data sovereignty considerations are embedded, and help standardize onboarding, automation, and orchestration across partner ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in pre-sales/sales engineering or solution architecture in networking or security.
• Strong expertise in SD-WAN, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and DLP architectures.
• Knowledge of European data sovereignty, GDPR-adjacent constraints, data residency.
• Experience with integration: APIs, orchestration, telemetry into NOC/SOC and billing.
• Track record from pilot to industrialized scale with automation.
• Fluent English; another major European language is a plus.
• Based in Europe and willing to travel up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Productize SASE outcomes by co-designing managed SD-WAN, SSE, and Universal ZTNA offerings with partners.
• Lead architecture deep-dives, PoVs, and competitive displacements that establish Fortinet as the technical choice.
• Design scalable rollout with repeatable onboarding, automation, and onboarding processes across tenants.
• Map SASE into partner NOC/SOC, ticketing, billing, and orchestration stacks — API and telemetry integration.
• Address data residency and sovereignty requirements head-on in engagements.
• Represent Fortinet at partner events and enablement sessions across EMEA.

Skills

Pre-sales engineering

SD-WAN & ZTNA

European data sovereignty

NOC/SOC integration

Automation & onboarding

Multi-tenant architecture

English fluency

Job description

Fortinet, Inc. is seeking a Senior Consulting Systems Engineer to drive SASE-based solutions with Telco and MSSP partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. You will architect and launch multi-tenant offerings and enable field SEs to win competitive deals across the EMEA region.

You will lead technical governance, ensure data sovereignty considerations are embedded, and help standardize onboarding, automation, and orchestration across partner ecosystems.