DescriptionResponsibilities:
- Assist in qualifying sales leads from an Engineering standpoint.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and sales teams.
- Lead technically salesmeetings 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 customers 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 with RFPs RFIs demonstrations Proof of Concepts ensuring Fortinets solutions exceed customer expectations.
- Act as the primary technical contact for customers and partners collaborating closely with Account Managers demonstrating Fortinets valued proposition.
- Be able to clearly understand articulate and deliver Fortinets 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 Fortinets product offerings.
Required Skills and experience:
- 3 years of experience in Security Operations Teams (Blue Team Red Team SOC Manager Senior SOC Analyst).
- 3 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 EPPis 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:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
- CISSP CISM CISA CCSP CEH GSEC OSCP TOGAFor other professional level credentials/accreditations are a plus.
- Fortinet Certifications (FCP FCSS FCX) are a plus
- Cloud Certifications from a well-known vendor is a plus.