Sales Engineer, SLED

Fortinet Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to closely partner with a Named Account Manager within a defined territory.

You will support the sales organization across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales, acting as the main technical resource on calls, and assisting customers and partners with features, specifications, functionality, and integration. The role requires 5–8 years in technical/pre-sales and 5–7 years in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration, with solid DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCP/IP

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of technical/pre-sales experience in sales or system engineering.
• 5–7 years in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration.
• Knowledge of DNS, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP.
• Familiarity with routing, switching, VPN, LAN/WAN, and network security.
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies.
• Strong 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 answer or educate the customer and partner on issues ranging from features, specifications and functionality to integration.
• Converse 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.

Skills

Pre-sales support

LAN/WAN/Internet services

DNS/NFS/SMTP/HTTP/TCP-IP

Routing & Switching

VPN & Network Security

Intrusion Detection & Antivirus

Encryption & Authentication

Excellent presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Graduate Degree favorable

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

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.