Responsibilities:
- Assist in qualifying sales leads from an Engineering standpoint.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and sales teams.
- Lead technically sales meetings with customers to understand their Cybersecurity challenges and requirements and align them to Fortinet solutions and services.
- Be the main technical resource on sales meetings to answer and collaborate with? the customer around Fortinet solutions features, specifications, and functionalities.
- Build cybersecurity solutions and Bill of Materials aligned to customers’ needs and requirements.
- Conduct technical presentations of Fortinet products and solutions.
- Lead the technical sales activities like assisting partners in the process of answering RFxs, demonstrations, Proof of Concepts, ensuring Fortinet’s solutions exceed customer expectations.
- Act as the primary technical contact for customers and partners, collaborating closely with Account Managers, demonstrating Fortinet’s valued proposition.
- Be able to clearly understand, articulate and deliver Fortinet’s value proposition, to customers and partners.
- Be a presenter in internal or external meetings, like events, Executive Briefing Centers (EBCs), Marketing activities, or any market positioning activity.
- Manage multiple opportunities effectively while maintaining exceptional customer experiences, with a great report within internal tools.
- Proactively manage internal and external communications including calls, emails and chats based on the predefined SLAs.
- Stay ahead of cybersecurity trends and Fortinet’s product offerings.
Required Skills and experience:
- 5+ years of experience in Security Operations Teams (Blue Team, Red Team, SOC Manager, Senior SOC Analyst).
- 2+ years in Network Security (LAN/WAN and WLAN Admin/Manager) with experience with NGFW/SDWAN technologies, Large Campus and Datacenter Networking solutions.
- 2+ Years of experience in pre-sales engineering roles is a plus.
- Deep understanding of enterprise network security architectures, industry cybersecurity frameworks, and regulations such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, COBIT, PCI-DSS, FERPA, HIPAA and Zero Trust.
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Cybersecurity and Network Architectures. Knowledge of the following concepts: Network Security, Security Operations, Cloud Technologies, Secure Access Service Edge, Network Access Control.
- Strong understanding in the following technologies and protocols: RADIUS, LDAP, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, VXLAN, IPSEC, 802.1Q, AES, SSH, TLS/SSL, SHA.
- Understanding of Private and Public Cloud environments like VMWare, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, Nutanix.
- Experience with modern encryption, authentication and IAM technologies
- Strong understanding in the following solutions: SIEM, SOAR, EDR, EPP, PAM, DLP is a plus
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Professional proficient in English, being able to effectively participate in technical discussions, internal and external meetings, and written communication.
Education and Certifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, CEH, GSEC, OSCP, TOGAF or other professional level credentials/accreditations are a plus.
- Fortinet Certifications (FCP, FCSS, FCX) are a plus
- Strong Wireless technologies knowledge is a plus.
- Cloud Certifications from a well-known vendor is a plus.