Inside Sales Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to work closely with our SMB sales teams. The Pre-Sales Systems Engineer's main mission is to support the sales organization in all technical matters related to pre-sales, opportunity management, and customer success.

As a Systems Engineer, you will enable sales engagements into a set of new and existing accounts. You will play a pivotal role to discover and assess IT business goals and challenges. You will develop solutions based on those requirements using the Fortinet product and service portfolio. You will provide compelling and accurate presentations of those solutions to the customers or Fortinet partners.

Responsibilities

• Assess customer project requirements
• Align client needs with appropriate Fortinet solutions
• Partner with internal peers to pursue sales opportunities
• Provide Networking/Security guidance in pre-sale engagements
• Cross-team collaboration
• Continual self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (data center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)
• Ensure ongoing customer success, support, and growth

Requirements

• 1 year of relevant pre/post-sales experience and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• OR 3 years of experience in a related field
• The Inside Systems Engineer is required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Technical Proficiencies

A strong proficiency in the following areas:

• Cybersecurity fundamentals, including common cybersecurity issues, threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities
• Principles of cyber threat management and incident response
• Networking fundamentals including the OSI model and specifics of common network protocols
• Critical thinking
• Professional communication and presentation

General Knowledge (at least 2 of the following)

• Network Operations
• Breach Detection and Prevention
• Security Operations
• DevOps
• Wired and wireless Access
• Identity and Access Management
• Public and private cloud
• Web content and security acceleration

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network — today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@fortinet.com.

Equal Opportunity

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, military/veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics in the location where the candidate is applying.