[Hiring] Presales Security Expert Mid-Market @Fortinet

Role Description

As a Presales Security Expert Mid-Market at Fortinet, you will:

• Assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint.
• Be the main technical resource on sales calls and educate customers on issues ranging from features, specifications, and functionality to integration.
• Be conversant with networking applications and solutions.
• Have experience with virtualization, NFV, and emerging SDN technologies.
• Be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues, working closely with the technical support team and engineering to resolve customer issues.
• Provide assistance to identified customers with post-sales training.
• Regularly interface, provide presales support, and assist in training Fortinet Channel partners in your region.
• Present at events, seminars, customer, and partner meetings.
• Be flexible to travel primarily within the SEs designated region, with occasional travel to other regions.

Qualifications

• 3 – 8 years’ experience in technical/pre-sales support as a pre-sales or security expert.
• Experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration.
• Ability to design network and security solutions, effectively utilize Visio, and create BOMs (Bill of Materials).
• Knowledge of technologies: Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Stateful Firewalling, NGFW, Firewall policies, Identity based policies, NAT, IPS, AntiMalware, Botnet, Application Control, DDoS, Web Filtering, SDN.
• Strong understanding of technologies and protocols: TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, supernetting and subnetting, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, SSL Decryption, SSL VPN, IPSEC, 802.1Q, VLANs, LACP, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, SHA512, 3DES, AES.
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies required.
• Strong technical troubleshooting skills desired.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong communication and writing skills; previous experience responding to RFPs is beneficial.
• Whiteboard skills are beneficial.
• Technical knowledge in Wifi, Load Balancing and Application Delivery, Ethernet Switching, ACI, API, Two Factor Auth, Malware Sandboxes, Mail Gateways, Web Application Firewalling, Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc), SDN, NFV, Virtualization, Centralized Management, SIEM, and Data Center redundancy are considered assets.
• Previous Vendor or Reseller experience is an asset.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Supportive work environment.
• Competitive Total Rewards package to support overall health and financial well-being.