Systems Engineer

Fortinet; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company is looking for a Systems Engineer in Riyadh. This role involves supporting the sales organization in technical matters, including pre-sales and post-sales support. The ideal candidate should have a strong aptitude for security technology and experience in engaging with enterprise customers. Responsibilities include leading technical aspects of the sales cycle and improving knowledge around cybersecurity solutions. The position offers an excellent training environment and competitive compensation packages.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Open working environment

Competitive salary and incentive compensation package

Qualifications

• Experience managing end-to-end technical aspects of deals.
• Strong understanding of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, IPSEC.
• Ability to communicate technically to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical aspects of the sales cycle with enterprise customers.
• Be the primary technical point of contact for customer(s) and partners.
• Continuously improve knowledge around Fortinet products and competitive landscape.

Skills

high aptitude for security technology

network security knowledge

communication skills

problem-solving skills

Education

CISSP accreditation (beneficial)

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Overview

Location – Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with a sales representative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Systems Engineer's main mission will be to support the sales organization in all technical matters regarding pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales.

This role is titled Systems Engineer - Public Sector and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Systems Engineer will support the sales organization in technical matters across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales.

Responsibilities

• Lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle with enterprise customers, from the initial RFIs through to RFPs & RFQs when required. This includes project management and active participation in POCs in partnership with the relevant teams both internally and within the customer and/or commercial partner.
• Listen to and understand the customer’s technical requirements, reading between the lines to build a solution that outperforms the competitor offering.
• Be the primary technical point of contact for the customer(s) and partners in close collaboration with the sales partner.
• Continuously strive to improve knowledge around Fortinet products and solutions, maintaining a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and Fortinet’s ability to provide long-lasting protection against evolving threats.
• Position Fortinet solutions to the customer, whether remotely or in person. This requires strong communication skills and the ability to confidently present through whiteboarding, technical white papers, technical plans, or customer discussions.
• Manage time effectively when working on multiple deals simultaneously, ensuring a positive customer experience is maintained.
• Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account technical information of all customers and prospects in our CRM (Salesforce).

Qualifications

• High aptitude for security technology, specifically encryption and authentication, with knowledge of network security, intrusion detection, anti-virus, routing, switching, LAN and WAN being desirable. CISSP accreditation would be beneficial.
• Experience as a pre-sales engineer, managing end-to-end technical aspects of deals through to technical closure.
• Proven problem-solving skills and demonstrated impact on key wins within your current organization.
• Ability to build and maintain customer relationships and communicate technically to a range of external and internal stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES.

What You Can Expect From Us

• Excellent training and development opportunities, providing you with tools to be successful.
• An open working environment, sharing knowledge collaboratively and transparently, with respect to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
• The opportunity to be part of an innovative, collaborative and winning team.
• A competitive salary and incentive compensation package, including stock awards, health and welfare benefits.

From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure. Today, we secure the largest enterprises, service providers and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network – today and into the future. We have proven to be a truly innovative technology driven network security company with over 619 registered Global Patents. This is over 3 times more than our closest most innovative competitor!