
Sales Engineer, Enterprise
at Fortinet
Posted 10 hours ago
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- Compensation
- Not specified USD
- City
- Jacksonville
- Country
- United States
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The Sales Engineer, Enterprise will support the sales organization in technical matters related to pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales. Working with a Major Account Manager in a defined territory, the role involves qualifying leads from a technical perspective, acting as the main technical resource on sales calls, and serving as the lead technical contact for identified accounts to address and resolve issues with support and engineering. The position may require travel to client sites to drive sales and provide post-sales training.
Location: Jacksonville, FL, United States
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with a Major 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
- The Systems Engineer, Enterprise 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

