Sr. Sales Engineer

Fortinet•Seattle, WA

1d•$200,000 - $320,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer to work closely with a Major Account Manager (MAM) selling into the Strategic Hyperscaler territory. The Sr. Systems Engineer's main mission will be to proactively engage within the assigned territory to win technical mindshare, develop and nurture deep and trusted relationships with technical stakeholders and influencers, and work closely with MAM to achieve stated sales targets.

Requirements

7+ years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
Pre-existing relationships within the Hyperscaler market
Excellent presentation skills – confident with technical and executive audiences, able to translate highly complex technical concepts into business terms.
Hunter mindset, highly driven and able to proactively engage with customers
Understanding of Economics Data Transfer Costs, and Cloud Marketplaces
5 - 7 years experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
Networking GWLB, TGW, Route Tables
Automation Terraform, Python, APIs
Lambda, K8S, Serverless technologies
Cloud Native Firewall, CNAPP, Application Security
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
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Graduate Degree favorable

Responsibilities

Proactively develop deep, trusted relationships with technical stakeholder groups.
Proactively develop, maintain, and evangelize an account-specific technical point of view that aligns customer’s business or technical goals with Fortinet’s solutions.
Proactively drive the pre-sales education and enablement of customer technical stakeholder groups through – Fast Tracks, Labs, Demos, Webinars, PoC’s
Serve as primary technical expert in sales calls.
Closely partner with assigned MAM to achieve sales targets.
Engage in ongoing Fortinet technical training and certification.