The Systems Engineer primary responsibility is to provide pre-sales technical support on Fortinet security solutions and services. Candidates should have a strong background in the security domain – such as networks security, applications & advanced threats protections and cloud security. Will provide guidance and assist major accounts sales team within Fortinet sales organization in building solutions to address major accounts clients’ security needs. The Systems Engineer will be the expert for Fortinet’s cloud security solutions and technologies offerings. Will be the expert resource that have good in-depth domain knowledge of both private and public cloud technologies to provide technical consultation to design, develop and implement secure infrastructure solutions in complex Cloud Architecture.
Responsibilities
- Provide pre-sales technical guidance and sales support for the development, adoption and implementation of Fortinet’s cloud security solutions in major accounts opportunities in various industry sectors.
- Assists the major accounts sales team in assessing potential application of Fortinet’s cloud products and solutions to meet clients’ needs and prepare detailed products/solutions specifications for the development and implementation of solutions.
- Understand the business operations requirements for major accounts clients base and be able to translate them into technical requirements, for the creation of solution design and proposals with Fortinet’s cloud security solutions and services offerings.
- Recognizes, builds and develops business cases for high-impact cloud security opportunities.
- Serve as a technical consultant in cloud infrastructure technologies to designing large scale, highly complex, cyber security architecture integration with Fortinet’s cloud security solutions.
- Responsible for defining cloud security architecture standards, best practices and guidelines for cloud infrastructure security services.
- Perform in-depth and complex technical presentations, solution showcases and proof of concepts (POCs) for major accounts clients and prospects.
- Serves as a trusted advisor for the clients by exhibiting strong reputation in solution architecture, solution implementation and best practices consultation; to build strategic relationships with key decision makers and influencers.
- Create proposals, test plans and writing of RFI/RFP or tender documents templates in the advantages of Fortinet’s cloud security solutions and offerings.
- Acquire in-depth security knowledge and good understanding to of cyber security trends, challenges and technology; to educate clients and prospects.
- Plan and delivery of technical workshops for clients or prospects.
- Help drive technical events, seminars and webinars.
Requirements
- University degree in a technical discipline or equivalent.
- At least 12 years field experience working with Public and Private cloud platforms and networks security, preferably in an IT vendor environment.
- At least 8 years of field experience working with major or named accounts as a Systems Engineer or equivalent.
- Certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Platform – Professional Cloud Architect, VMware Certified Advanced Professional; is preferred.
- Security Certifications like CEH, CISSP, CCSP, CISA, GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), OCSP will be an advantage.
- Strong technical knowledge and working experience in one or more of the following portfolios of public cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, VMware-based cloud. Automation, Orchestration, Provisioning tools, like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
- Strong working knowledge with Software Defined Networking Data Center technologies, such as VMware NSX, Openstack and Cisco ACI, etc.
- Good working knowledge in container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, VMware Tanzu, etc; that can automate the provisioning, management and scaling of applications.
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