Systems Engineer - NetOps

• Member of the SME team which covers India region (India & SAARC Region)
• Expected to work from the office three days per week. This enables collaboration with the extended teams, fostering trusted relationship and teamwork.

Second level of pre-sales support assisting the field SE organization:

• in responding to RFPs/RFIs: design, solution specification, product information.
• in supporting key projects to ensure Fortinets success.
• in leading technical discussions, articulating the technology and demonstrating differentiated value.
• in conducting compelling solution presentations, demonstrations and POC (Proof of Concept).
• Hands on assistance

• Responsible for building technical materials to support sales activities (slideware, solution brief, white papers, success stories, technical notes, competitive comparison etc) and designing Internal workshops.
• Perform External workshops & PoCs for prospects or customers on product evaluations and do demonstrations, in collaboration with Account SE.
• Perform hands-on tests to validate network designs, customer proof-of-concept setups and network deployments for new products and feature.
• Effectively disseminate product knowledge to the Sales Team and Channel.
• Point of contact for the CSE team: responsible to report and consolidate customer needs across India region, validate business cases, write, and escalate feature requests.
• Report project activities, analyze project trends and provide market vision.
• Participate in the development of commercial strategies.
• Ability to Travel at a short notice, as required within India region.
• Collect information on competitive solutions, products, and services and update the Channel and Account team

• At least 10 years of experience in a Senior SE, Consulting SE, Technical role within the Networking or IT Security industries.
• Vendor and SI experience.
• Expertise in designing, proposing, demonstrating and conducting Proof of Concept for Network Access Control (NAC) solution to customers
• Experience with Wireless technology, design, site survey, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in designing and proposing DataCenter, Campus and Branch switching solutions
• Experience in Identity and Access management solutions(AAA) solutions related to NAC, Wireless and switches.

Knowledge of pitching ZTNA technology, SD-Branch

• Switching: VXLAN, MCLAG, ACL s, QOS, Port Security(802.1x authentication), Stacking. IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, IEEE 802.3af/at/bt, PoE budget calculations, IEEE 802.3ad/ax/ae, LLDP/MED/MAC Sec, STP, RADIUS CoA, DHCP Snooping, IEEE 802.3z/ab/ae/az/bz/ba/bg/bm, Split port, Port Fast, Private VLAN, Storm Control, LoopGuard, IEEE 802.1ad QinQ, IGMP/Dhcp snooping.

• Strong fundamental understanding of TCP/IP(IPv6), Switching, WLAN, Network Security and Authentication
• Advanced Technical understanding of Routing Protocols, specifically OSPF & BGP
• Experience in IP Voice solutions would be an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience in NGFW / UTM / Threat prevention
• Knowledge in some of the following areas of specialization:
• Basic knowledge of MDM solutions, IoT solutions, MAC Address Bypass, LAN Micro-segmentation, SNMP, MIB OIDs etc
• Wireless: Must have deep understanding in IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, IEEE 802.11e/h/i/k/r/v, CAPWAP, BLE/Zigbee, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2, PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2, PEAPv1/EAP-GTC, EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-FAST, WPA , WPA2 , and WPA3 with 802.11, Wireless Controller Architecture (campus and remote AP deployment), Basic understanding of Wireless spectrum analyser and WIPS, OFDMA, Spatial Reuse, UL MU-MIMO, DL- MU-MIMO.
• AAA: RADIUS and LDAP Authentication, Certificate based authentication for wired and wireless deployment, SAML authentication, Single Sign-On User Identification Methods, Two-factor authentication, Onboarding techniques of BYOD and IOT devices.
• IPSec Encryption, Basics on IPv6, Multicast, NAT, VRF, VoIP, QoS, LTE/5G, Packet Capture/Analysis Tools, SSL/TLS.
• Scripting knowledge using Python / Bash / PowerShell / Golang or alternative
• Administrative knowledge of Linux
• Knowledge of Public Cloud concepts in technologies like GCP, Azure and AWS