Fortinet Consulting Systems Engineer 

Argentina, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 

876543502

Responsibilities:

• Support sales activities in Latin America as a strategic and regional technical resource for strategic pre-sales engagements and critical opportunities.
• Conduct technical meetings with customers and resellers to highlight our products and solutions.
• Provide pre-sales technical support to Fortinet field engineers, Fortinet resellers, and distributors to positively influence sales within Latin America.
• Assist Fortinet field engineers in performing technical design of customer security solutions. Recommend the best technical solution for a given scenario to provide quality products and services to Fortinet’s customers.
• Act as a subject-matter expert in pre-sales design reviews regarding his/her product specialization and serve as an authoritative consultant to Field Systems Engineers by providing technical guidance and leadership.
• Participate with SE peers to help design secure IP networks, utilizing and leveraging all aspects of Fortinet’s product line to create superior solutions in competitive environments.
• Provide training to System Engineers at various events worldwide and mentor SE specialists within Virtual Teams.
• Serve as Virtual Team Leader and act as a voice representing the Sales Organization from a technical perspective at various meetings and committees.
• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to help identify, qualify, and develop features critical to Fortinet’s success.
• Write whitepapers, tech notes, and other high-level technical documentation as required.
• Create technical documents that can help the partner base perform better/quicker/ demonstration demos to effectively show Fortinet’s product strengths.
• Create/Modify/translate presentations as needed to deliver Fortinet’s message to any audience effectively.
• Be part of the internal engineering communities (Tech Teams, Mailing lists) and assist others within or outside the region to make Fortinet more successful.
• Be part of a distributed team of people that shares workload and assignments. A strong sense of teamwork is required.
• Take internal training as needed (including self-training modules) to keep product knowledge as high as possible and be an expert resource for resellers, partners, distributors, and other peers.
• Comply with activity reports and ensure timely communication to the CSE Manager / CSE Director.

Requirements:

• Minimum ten years of technical experience in networking/computing
• Extensive and proven experience designing, building, and supporting advanced security solutions in a customer-facing role. 5+ years of related experience.
• Strong network and security skills, including hands-on experience with products from top security vendors. Good understanding of networking technologies.
• Deep understanding of:
  • Layer 2/3 Networking – Proficient in VLANs, STP, RSTP, MSTP, LACP, MC-LAG, IPv4, IPv6, VRF, OSPF, OSPFv3, IS-IS, BGP, Overlays Networks (MPLS/MPBGP, EVPN/VXLAN, SR).
  • Quality of Service (QoS): CoS, DSCP, classification, marking, prioritization. Multicast in L2 and L3 – IGMP snooping, MLD, PIM SM, PIM DM, SSM, BiDir.
  • Redundancy & high availability (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP)
  • Micro-segmentation strategies and access control policies at the LAN edge.
  • Software-defined LAN (SD-LAN) solutions.
  • Design and deploy Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 WLAN solutions
  • AP placement, RF design, and optimization (using Ekahau or Hamina)
  • Roaming strategies, band steering, and client optimization
  • Implementing WLAN security policies including WPA3, 802.1X authentication, EAP-TLS, and guest access management
  • 802.1X-based network access control solutions
  • Identity-based policy enforcement, dynamic VLAN assignment, TrustSec/SXP as Wireshark, TCPDump, NetFlow analyzers, packet captures
  • Perform in-depth troubleshooting of LAN switching issues, using tools such
  • Analyzing network performance metrics and optimize latency, jitter, and throughput at the LAN edge.Secure endpoint technologies
• NAC and network authentication technology (desirable)
• Proven hands-on experience with Fortinet’s enhanced technologies such as FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP (highly desirable).
• Good knowledge and understanding of Public Cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (desirable).
• Ability to travel on short notice.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation, and presentation skills in English/Spanish (Portuguese is a plus).
• Capable of delivering product and technology presentations to technical and business audiences.
• Outstanding consultative skills. Ability to interpret the specific customer environment and security needs and articulate the best technical solution.
• Outstanding project management and documentation skills. Ability to design and follow work plans for complex activities and by following good documentation practices.
• Ability to work effectively, add value as a team member, and collaborate with various teams such as engineering, sales, product management, and customer support.
• Ability to mentor other sales engineers and take leadership
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• Fortinet NSE8, CISPP, CISM, and other security certifications are highly desirable.
• Spanish and English B2 level required; Portuguese highly desirable.

Preferred Certifications (desirable):

• Cisco CCIE Enterprise
• CWNE (Certified Wireless Network Expert)
• Aruba Enterprise Expert
• Juniper Enterprise Expert
• Python or Ansible certifications (DevNet, Red Hat Automation)
• Ekahau or Hamina (RF Design)