Systems Engineer - Public
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Fortinet is seeking a Systems Engineer in Public Sector in Lausanne for a full time hybrid role. You will own the technical lead across the sales cycle from RFIs through RFPs and RFQs, drive POCs with internal and customer teams, and translate customer needs into solutions that beat the competition. You’ll be the primary technical contact and trusted advisor, presenting Fortinet’s security value to both technical and non technical audiences, and maintaining precise account information. The ideal candidate has two plus years in technical or pre sales support with enterprise customers, a CS degree or equivalent, security solution experience (firewalls, proxies, endpoints), strong analytical and presentation skills, independence, and French fluency. To apply, tailor your resume to security wins, RFP/POC outcomes, and collaboration with partners; showcase impact and readiness to work remotely. Fortinet offers excellent training, a collaborative culture, competitive pay, stock awards, benefits, and equal opportunity.
Systems Engineer – Public Sector
Location: Lausanne
Our Team
The Fortinet Systems Engineering team is a group of technically skilled and commercially astute professionals, who are passionate about solving our customer’s challenges through the delivery of industry leading cybersecurity solutions.
With us you will
- Lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle with the customer, from the initial RFIs, through to RFPs & RFQs when required. This includes the project management and active participation in POCs in partnership with the relevant teams both internally and within the customer and/or commercial partner.
- Have the ability to listen and to understand the technical requirements of the customer, reading between the lines to build a solution which outperforms the competitor offering.
- Be the primary technical point of contact and the trusted advisor for our customer(s)
- Have a strong ability to position Fortinet solutions to the customer, 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.
- Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account technical information of all customers and prospects.
Apply if you
- 2+ years of experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer working with enterprise customers, preferable at a vendor
- BSc in computer science, equivalent or equivalent experience
- Pre-Sales experience in security solutions including, but not limited to firewalls, security proxies, endpoint protection
- Experience and knowledge of modern security threats
- Have strong analytical skills to evaluate complex problems
- Used to work and organize yourself independently
- Have strong presentation skills towards technical and non-technical audiences
- You are fluent in French.
What you can expect from us
- Excellent training and development opportunities, providing you with all the tools you need to be successful.
- An open working environment, sharing knowledge and information collaboratively and transparently, with respect to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
- The opportunity to be part of an innovative, collaborative and winning team.
- A competitive salary and incentive compensation package, including stock awards, health and welfare benefits.
Your New Employer
From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure. Today, we secure the largest enterprises, service providers 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. We have proven to be a truly innovative technology driven network security company with over 619 registered Global Patents. This is over 3 times more than our closest most innovative competitor!
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, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.