Remote Pre-Sales Systems Engineer - Cybersecurity

Fortinet; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet is seeking a Systems Engineer in the Richmond, VA area with remote work options to support the sales team across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales activities. You will qualify technical opportunities, present solutions, and resolve advanced customer technical issues while coordinating with engineering and support teams.

The ideal candidate has 1–3 years in pre-sales or systems engineering, strong LAN/WAN and security knowledge, and excellent presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Pre-sales - assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint.
• Sales calls - be the main technical resource on sales calls and educate customers and partners on features, specs and functionality.
• Post-sales - be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues and coordinate with support and engineering to resolve problems.
• Provide post-sales training assistance to identified customers.

Skills

Pre-sales support

LAN/WAN administration

DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCPIP

Networking technologies

Security technologies

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelors degree or equivalent

Tools

Routing

Switching

VPN

Firewall

Job description

Fortinet is seeking a Systems Engineer in the Richmond, VA area with remote work options to support the sales team across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales activities. You will qualify technical opportunities, present solutions, and resolve advanced customer technical issues while coordinating with engineering and support teams.

The ideal candidate has 1–3 years in pre-sales or systems engineering, strong LAN/WAN and security knowledge, and excellent presentation skills.