Overview
As a Systems Engineer in the Carrier/MSSP space, you will partner with sales to articulate Fortinet’s security and networking value. You contribute technical leadership across pre-sales, sales engagement, and select post-sales activities, helping to shape solutions for service providers. You will act as a domain expert, drive PoCs, and guide integration and design discussions for strategic opportunities. Your work directly supports expanding Fortinet’s footprint in carrier and MSSP markets while delivering trusted advisory guidance. This role offers impact at scale through cross-functional collaboration and ongoing customer enablement.
Leistungen / Benefits
- flexible work arrangements
- competitive total rewards
- diversity and inclusion
- supportive work environment
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Demonstrate Fortinet portfolio and communicate technical and business value
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert for Carrier/MSSPs in assigned domain
- Create and qualify opportunities through technical assessment, upsell/cross-sell, and project influence
- Lead technical sales engagements, including demos, RfX responses, PoCs, and enablement
- Provide high-level architecture and implementation guidance for strategic opportunities
- Act as trusted advisor and maintain technical relationships with MSSP/Carrier accounts
- Collaborate with CSEs, Solution Architects, and Partners on complex opportunities
- Support PreSales, Sales & Channel enablement activities and events
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Minimum 3 years in pre-sales support with proven success
- Expert knowledge of networking (LAN, WLAN, WAN, SDN, routing, switching, Internet services) and network security (NGFWs, IDS, encryption)
- Strong customer focus and self-motivated, goal-driven attitude
- Ability to interface with senior stakeholders
- Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation, prioritization, and interpersonal skills
- Deep experience in installation/configuration of network devices and systems (UNIX/Linux, Windows, virtualization, containers, public clouds)
- Scripting knowledge (Ansible, Terraform, Python with API knowledge) is beneficial
- German and English language proficiency
- Willingness to travel up to 20-50%
- customer focus
- self-motivation
- communication excellence
- FortiOS-based products
- networking and security fundamentals
- PoC design and execution
Systems Engineer - Carrier / MSSP - Germany in Bremen Arbeitgeber: Fortinet
Fortinet ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern in Deutschland, insbesondere in Frankfurt, Hamburg und München, eine dynamische und unterstützende Arbeitsumgebung bietet. Mit einem starken Fokus auf Weiterbildung und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten fördert Fortinet eine offene Unternehmenskultur, die Zusammenarbeit und Innovation schätzt. Die Mitarbeiter profitieren von einem wettbewerbsfähigen Gehaltspaket, einschließlich Aktienoptionen, und haben die Möglichkeit, Teil eines erfolgreichen Teams zu werden, das einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Cybersicherheitsbranche hat.
