Job Description

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We are looking for a PreSales Security Expert to work closely with a sales representative in a defined territory. The PreSales Security Expert\'s main mission will be to support the sales organization on developing technical strategies, offerings and all technical matters regarding pre-sales, sales calls, customer POC\'s (proof of concepts) and post-sales. This PreSales Channel SE role will be to support our carrier/ service provider partners such as: Bell Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute on joint strategy with your direct sales person which is tied to your partners and Fortinet Goals.
• Have the ability to listen and to understand the technical requirements of the partner, reading between the lines to build a solution which outperforms the competitor offering.
• Be the primary technical point of contact for your partners(s) in close collaboration with your sales partner.
• Collectively work with Fortinet\'s teams (account sales/ technical, marketing, specialization overlays) + your partners teams (sales/ technical/ professional services, managed services, etc) to develop \xe2\x80\x9cgo to market\xe2\x80\x9d offerings to address Fortinet and our partners goals.
• Continuously strive to improve knowledge around the Fortinet products and solutions, along with maintaining a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and Fortinet\'s ability to provide long lasting protection against the ever-evolving threats.
• Have a strong ability to position Fortinet solutions to the partner, whether this be remotely or in person. This requires strong communication skills and the ability to confidently present through whiteboarding, technical white papers, technical plans, or customer discussions.
• Manage your time effectively when working on multiple deals simultaneously, ensuring a positive customer experience is maintained.
• Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account technical information of all customers and prospects in our CRM (Salesforce).

Required Skills:

• Have a high aptitude for security technology, specifically encryption, authentication, with further knowledge of network security, intrusion detection, anti-virus, routing, switching, LAN and WAN being desirable. The CISSP accreditation would also be beneficial.
• Are currently or have previously worked in a pre-sales engineer role, managing end to end technical aspects of deals, through to technical closure.
• Can demonstrate your problem solving skills and how this has impacted key wins within your current organization.
• Understand and can demonstrate your ability to build and maintain customer relationships, including your ability to effectively communicate technically to a range of both external and internal stakeholders.
• Have a strong understanding of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES

Optional but not required:

• Experience in specialized areas such as public or private cloud
• Experience in building managed service offerings

Education:

• Collage, Bachelor\'s Degree or equivalent experience

About Us:

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@fortinet.com.

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, military/veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

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