Sales Engineer, SLED

Fortinet; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet is seeking a skilled Pre-Sales / Systems Engineer in Miami to qualify leads, support sales calls with in-depth technical expertise, and educate customers on Fortinet networking and security solutions. The role requires hands-on experience with routing, switching, VPNs, and security protocols.

The candidate will collaborate with post-sales teams to resolve issues and provide training, ensuring seamless engagement from initial contact through deployment and adoption in customer

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent; graduate degree favorable.
• Strong experience in technical/pre-sales supporting sales or engineering roles.
• Solid knowledge of DNS, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP and routing/switching.
• Experience with encryption, authentication and security protocols.

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 integration.
• Conversant with networking applications and solutions.
• Post-sales - lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues, coordinating with support and engineering to resolve issues.
• Provide post-sales training assistance to identified customers.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

LAN/WAN/Internet services

DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCP-IP

Routing & Switching

VPN/Network Security

Intrusion Detection

Encryption & Authentication

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Graduate Degree favorable

Job description

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