Systems Engineer

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with a sales representative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Systems Engineer's main mission will be to support the sales organization in all technical matters regarding pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales. With us you will: • Lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle with the Enterprise customers, 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 for the customer(s) and partners in close collaboration with your sales partner. • 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 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. • 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). • 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 organisation. • 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