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Systems Engineering Mgmt - M4

at Fortinet

Tech LeadNo visa sponsorshipCybersecurity

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Country: Sweden

Lead and manage Fortinet's Systems Engineering team focused on networking and security. Responsible for coaching and performance management of direct reports, setting clear deliverables, recruiting and mentoring new members, and aligning with sales to grow Fortinet footprint. Works with escalation teams, develops cost-effective customer solutions, and coordinates bids and RFx responses, while promoting knowledge sharing across teams.

Location: Sweden

Systems Engineering Manager

Job Description/Purpose:

Fortinet has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective and motivated leader to be part of the Systems Engineering Team. The ideal candidate will exhibit strong leadership skills, will be forward thinking, will be self-motivated, and will be able to work effectively in a diverse, highly talented team, continuously striving for excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

The primary role of a Systems Engineering Manager is to provide leadership and guidance to a highly skilled Systems Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for:

The development of your direct reports through coaching, performance management and training.
Setting clear expectations of team deliverables and measurements.
Recruit and mentor new members to the team.
Work closely with the sales account leaders on strategic plans to maintain, secure, and grow the Fortinet footprint.
Manage and align key features and functionality that are instrumental to business success.
Work closely with the escalation management teams.
Strive to develop strong relationships within the team, internally at a corporate level, and externally with key customers and partners.
Manage and coordinate with the relevant teams to deliver winning contract bids and RFx responses.
Encourage knowledge sharing within the team and across the other sales verticals.
Embrace and apply organization processes, methodologies and processes in leading and managing the team.

Skills and Experience:

Minimum of 10 years general networking industry experience, including a practicing knowledge of the following:
Routing, Switching, VPN (IPSEC/SSL), LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, AntiVirus & ATP.
5 – 8 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
Thorough understanding of the pre-sales engineering process and sales processes.
Experience in managing technical projects and leading teams of highly technical individuals.
Demonstrated strong written, oral and presentation skills with the ability to discuss highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive level technical decision-makers.
Experience in developing cost effective solutions around customer needs.
Travel: In Territory - 95%, Out of Territory - 5%

Education:

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate degree preferred

About Us 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.

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