Sales Engineer, SLED

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Collaborate closely with SLED Account Managers within a designated territory

• Provide technical support to the sales team during pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales processes

• Aid in the assessment of sales leads from a technical perspective

• Function as the primary technical resource during sales calls

• Educate customers and partners on features, specifications, functionality, and integration

• Serve as the lead technical contact for designated accounts regarding technical inquiries

• Coordinate with technical support and engineering teams to address, escalate, and resolve customer technical challenges

• Deliver post-sales training to identified clients

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in technical or pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer

• 5–7 years of experience in the administration of LAN/WAN/Internet services

• Demonstrated understanding of DNS and NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP

• Familiarity with Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, and Anti-Virus

• Strong grasp of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES

• Required experience with encryption and authentication technologies

• Outstanding presentation skills

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Disability insurance

• 401(k)

• 11 paid holidays

• Vacation time

• Sick time

• Comprehensive leave program

• Fortinet equity program

• Commissions based on the terms of the Sales Compensation Plan