DescriptionWe are seeking a skilled and experienced SD-WAN Systems Engineer to join the dynamic CSE team remotely in US. In this role, you will support sales activities as a strategic and high-level corporate technical resource for vital pre-sales engagements and key opportunities. This entails a deeply knowledgeable skillset to design, present, demo, customer PoC and train the solutions.
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain:
- Core competency on Fortinet’s product line and technologies
- Expert-level technical and marketing knowledge in one of four specific technology disciplines as they relate to Fortinet’s products:
- Security Infrastructure – Switching, Routing, and Availability
- Security Enforcement – Firewall/VPN; Access, Authentication, and Privacy
- Security Management – Centralized Configuration, Administration, and Reporting
- Security Intelligence – Stateful inspection, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Intrusion Prevention, Content-Filtering and Application-level Security
- Act as subject-matter expert in pre-sales design reviews and serve as authoritative consultant to Field Systems Engineers by providing technical guidance and leadership.
- Participate with SE peers to lead the design and architecture of 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 Leaders and act as voice representing the International 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.
- Interface with Fortinet’s Business and Technology partners within designated technology discipline and distribute that knowledge to the field Systems Engineers.
- Minimum 10 years technical experience in networking / security
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge in troubleshooting advanced routing in complex multi-region networks. (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VRF, etc)
- Extensive knowledge of switching / routing
- Extensive knowledge and ability to design SD-WAN architectures in large deployments. (WAN technologies, IPsec VPN)
- Extensive knowledge in designing high availability datacenter and branch networks
- Proficient analyzing packet captures and debug level outputs
- Proficient with central management platforms, templating, and zero touch deployment concepts.
- Good Presentation skills and articulate
- Good knowledge of security as a whole
- Processes
- Key operational concepts
- Network security technologies
- Team worker, focused on reaching objectives
- Ability to travel
Education:
- BSEE or equivalent experience
