Sales Engineer, Named

$200,000 - $240,000/Yr

Fortinet - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with a Named Account Manager in a defined territory. The Systems Engineer's main mission will be to support the sales organization in all technical matters regarding pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales.

Responsibilities

• Assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint during pre-sales.
• Be the main technical resource on sales calls and educate the customer and partner on issues ranging from features, specifications, and functionality to integration.
• Be conversant with networking applications and solutions.
• Act as the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues post-sales, working closely with the technical support team and engineering to resolve customer issues.
• Provide assistance to identified customers with post-sales training.

Requirements

• 5 - 8 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
• 5 - 7 years experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
• Proven understanding of DNS and NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP
• Knowledge of Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, and Anti Virus technologies
• Solid understanding of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES protocols
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies
• Exceptional presentation skills

Nice-to-haves

• Graduate Degree favorable.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)
• 11 paid holidays
• Vacation time
• Sick time
• Comprehensive leave program