Regional Sales Engineer, SLED

Panopta; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet Inc. in Nashville is seeking a Systems Engineer to support the sales organization across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales, collaborating with Regional Account Managers.

You will be the primary technical resource on calls, qualify leads technically, and address customer questions on features, integration, and security solutions. A Bachelor's degree and strong presentation skills are required. Experience with DNS, VPN, and network security is highly valued.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of technical or pre-sales support experience in a systems role.
• 3-5 years of LAN/WAN/Internet services administration.
• Strong understanding of DNS, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, and TCP/IP.
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint.
• Serve as main technical resource on sales calls and educate the customer and partner on features, specifications and functionality to integration.
• Post-sales: be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues and coordinate with support/engineering to resolve issues.
• Provide post-sales training assistance to identified customers.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

LAN/WAN administration

DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCP/IP

Routing & Switching

VPN & Network Security

Intrusion Detection

Anti-Virus

Encryption & Authentication

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree favorable

Job description

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with multiple Regional Account Managers within the regional territory. 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.

Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales - assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint.
• Sales calls - be the main technical resource on sales calls and answer or educate the customer and partner on issues ranging from features, specifications and functionality to integration.
• Conversant with networking applications and solutions.
• Post-sales - be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues and will work closely with the technical support team and engineering to answer, elevate and resolve customer's technical issues.
• Provide assistance to identified customers with post-sales training.

Required Skills:

• 1-3 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
• 3-5 years experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
• Proven understanding of DNS and NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP
• Knowledge of the following technologies: Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, and Anti Virus.
• Solid understanding in the following technologies and protocols: RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies required
• Exceptional presentation skills

Education:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate Degree favorable

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to operate at the intersection of cybersecurity strategy, executive engagement, and customer success, influencing large-scale enterprise organizationsas they modernize operations and adopt cutting-edge solutions. If you excel at combining technical depth with executive presence, this role will allow you to shape customer outcomes while growing your career in a dynamic security landscape.