Sales Engineer, SLED

Fortinet Inc.; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet is seeking a Systems Engineer to work with a Named Account Manager in a defined territory. The role focuses on supporting the sales organization on technical matters across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales.

Key tasks include qualifying leads technically, serving as the main technical resource on calls, and acting as the primary contact for post-sales issues while coordinating with engineering for resolution and training for customers.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of technical/pre-sales experience
• 5–7 years LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
• DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCP/IP understanding
• Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN/WAN, Network Security, IDS, Antivirus
• RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, Firewall, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies
• Exceptional presentation skills

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/partners on features, specs, functionality and integration.
• Conversant with networking applications and solutions.
• Post-sales - be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues and collaborate with support and engineering to resolve issues.
• Provide post-sales training to identified customers.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

LAN/WAN admin

DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCP-IP

Routing

Switching

VPN

Network Security

Intrusion Detection

Anti Virus

RADIUS

PKI

IKE

L2TP

IPSEC

FIREWALL

802.1Q

MD5

SSH

SSL

SHA1

DES

3DES

Encryption & auth

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Description

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with a Named Account Manager in a defined 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 onissues 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

• 5 – 8 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
• 5 - 7 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

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.