Systems Engineer – District Channel

🕒 February 6

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Fortinet

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10,000+ employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $6.5M Series B on 2005-01

Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B

Fortinet is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, focusing on securing networks, applications, and data across various environments. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes advanced threat protection, secure access service edge (SASE), and networking solutions, all integrated into a single point of management. With a commitment to innovation and efficiency, Fortinet serves a wide range of industries, securing over 700,000 enterprise customers and government organizations globally.

📋 Description

• Understanding of the Fortinet portfolio with the ability to demonstrate and articulate technical and business value. • Strong foundational knowledge in security and networking technology and specifically in our “core technology”, FortiOS-based products. • Subject Matter Expert and first contact in an assigned technical domain within or across assigned pre-sales district. Manage domain use cases, competitive intelligence, and differentiation. Excellent product integration & customization skills including relevant 3rd party integrations. • Be the lead technical contact for our regional partner ecosystem, distribution pre-sales and engineering. Identify opportunities to push solutions into the reseller portfolio, campaign new technologies and support building technical competence. • Manage and lead all aspects of the technical sales enablement from general queries to demos, RfX, and PoC’s around features, specifications, and functionality to integration. Provide architecture and implementation design consultation and best practice guidance for strategic engagements and early business stages. • Act as trusted advisor towards distribution and reseller accounts and maintain the technical relationship. Discover opportunities to upsell and cross-sell Fortinet solutions. Work closely with the regional escalation manager, technical support team and engineering to ensure resellers technical issues are answered and resolved. • Collaborate with peers, Consulting System Engineers (CSE’s), Solution Architects, Business Consultants, Professional Services and/or Partners on complex opportunities. Capture and manage customer requirements through the Consulting System Engineering Team to Product Management. • Champion and lead Pre-Sales, Sales & Channel enablement activities and events.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in channel and/or pre-sales support with proven success. • Expert level knowledge in networking (wired- and wireless, SD-WAN, WAN), and network security (Hybrid-Mesh Firewall, SASE, ZTNA). • Strong Channel and strategic focus to address complex technical and business requirements with a self-motivated, positive attitude. • Knowledge of the following domains is a plus: • - Datacenter architectures (e.g. ACI, NSX-T) • - Security Architectures (e.g. Hybrid-architecture, Net-Ops) • - Modern Software Architectures (e.g. DevOps, IaC) • - Cloud Architectures with at least one public cloud specialization • - Security Operations (e.g. Orchestration, Automation, SIEM Tools) • - IT Security standards (e.g. BSI 200-x, ISO2700x, COBIT, NIST) and/or relevant regulations (EU-DSGVO, BDSG, NIS-2/KRITIS). • Excellent German and English language skills. • Ability to interface with senior levels of internal / external organizations is required. • Expert level verbal & written communication and seasoned prioritization skills. • Exceptional presentation and interpersonal skills with proven experience. • Deep level experience in installation and configuration of network devices, systems (UNIX/Linux, Windows-based, virtualized and containers), public-clouds, and scripting (ideally Ansible, Terraform, Python with good knowledge of APIs). • Willingness to travel up to 60% of time.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work arrangement • Professional development opportunities