Fortinet

Sales Engineer, SLED

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Hiring Remotely in Jackson, MS, USA

In-Office or Remote

Senior level

Security • Software • Cybersecurity

The Role

Supports sales teams as the primary technical resource across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales activities. Qualifies leads, explains networking and security features, assists with integrations, resolves technical customer issues with support and engineering, and delivers post-sales training. Requires extensive sales engineering and LAN/WAN administration experience, strong knowledge of networking protocols, security technologies, encryption, authentication, and excellent presentation skills.

Summary Generated by Built In

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 UsFortinet 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.

Skills Required

5–8 years of experience in technical or pre-sales support as a sales engineer or systems engineer
5–7 years of experience administering LAN, WAN, or Internet services
Understanding of DNS and NFS
Understanding of SMTP, HTTP, and TCP/IP
Knowledge of routing, switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, network security, intrusion detection, and antivirus technologies
Understanding of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, certificates, L2TP, IPsec, firewalls, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA-1, DES, and 3DES
Experience with encryption and authentication technologies
Exceptional presentation skills
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Graduate degree

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