CNAPP Systems Engineer

The FortiCNAPP Systems Engineer is responsible for technical sales support within Fortinet's direct sales organization. Typical activities include product demonstrations, objection handling, and champion building with potential customers. As a trusted technical advisor, the Systems Engineer drives direct sales activity. The role requires excellent technical, communication, and organizational skills, and previous experience with AWS and security architectures. You will help prospective customers and partners understand the benefits of FortiCNAPP, explaining technical features and problem-solving any potential roadblocks.

Role Responsibilities:

• Work with the direct sales team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Own the technical relationship with FortiCNAPP customers, including proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.
• Deliver demos to customers and work hands-on with customers to demonstrate FortiCNAPP value in customer environments.
• Recommend security best practices, cloud architecture, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete cloud security solution based on FortiCNAPP.
• Bring constructive feedback from customers to product management to improve the FortiCNAPP solution.
• Expect some travel.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ Years Experience serving in the capacity of a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience presenting and delivering technical demos to executives, architects, and technical staff.
• Ability to log in to a Linux console and write a simple Bash script (with heavy Google help!).
• Understanding of tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.

Bonus Points if you Have:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent from Azure or GCP.
• Experience in and understanding of cloud deployments - especially as it relates to security and compliance requirements.
• Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
• Previous DevOps/DevSecOps experience.
• Previous compliance audit experience (either Auditor or being audited).