Support sales across a defined territory as the primary technical resource: qualify leads, lead technical sales calls, educate customers/partners, handle post-sales technical issues and training, liaise with support and engineering, and travel regularly to engage customers.
We are looking for a Regional Systems Engineer to work closely with an Account Manager in a defined territory. The Sales 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
- Strong 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.
- Strong 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
- Strong presentation skills
- The Regional Sales 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.
Education:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate Degree favorable
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.
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 [email protected].
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 applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
Similar Jobs
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Serve as the technical bridge between CrowdStrike and customers/prospects, demonstrating endpoint and network security solutions, articulating complex security problems, supporting sales engagements, presenting to varied audiences (including C-level), and collaborating with sales, marketing, support, and engineering to drive adoption of CrowdStrike's platform.
Top Skills:
AIAWSAzureBashEndpoint SecurityGCPLinuxmacOSMalware AnalysisNetwork SecurityPowershellPythonSandbox AnalysisThreat IntelligenceVirtualizationWindows
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Pre-sales technical lead for CrowdStrike Falcon NG-SIEM: own technical relationships through the sales cycle, demonstrate capabilities, answer technical questions, advise customers, enable expansions, gather product feedback, collaborate cross-functionally, and help define go-to-market strategy and integrations to grow NG-SIEM adoption.
Top Skills:
AICloud ProvidersCrowdstrike FalconData Ingestion FormatsData Shipping ServicesDistributed Data StoresKubernetesLinuxNg-SiemSIEMSsoWindowsXdr
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Serve as the technical bridge in sales: identify customer requirements, design and demonstrate security solutions, prepare proposals/RFP responses, provide product feedback to engineering, develop technical marketing materials, and build customer and partner relationships while staying current on security trends.
Top Skills:
AIAvEdrFirewallForensicsHipsIdsIncident ResponseLinuxmacOSSIEMWindows
What you need to know about the Boston Tech Scene
Boston is a powerhouse for technology innovation thanks to world-class research universities like MIT and Harvard and a robust pipeline of venture capital investment. Host to the first telephone call and one of the first general-purpose computers ever put into use, Boston is now a hub for biotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence — though it’s also home to several B2B software giants. So it’s no surprise that the city consistently ranks among the greatest startup ecosystems in the world.
Key Facts About Boston Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 269,000; 9.4% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toast, Klaviyo, HubSpot, DraftKings
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, software, aerospace
- Funding Landscape: $15.7 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Summit Partners, Volition Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, MassVentures, Highland Capital Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: MIT, Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, Boston University, Northeastern University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, National Bureau of Economic Research, Broad Institute, Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
