If you are based within commuting distance of the Sophia Antipolis office (or wish to relocate here) - that’s great. 

Your current role may be pre-sales, post-sales, R&D – it's not what matters to us. What we need to see are your strong technical skills and your ability to share them with others.

The role is that of Consulting Systems Engineer. So, what does a CSE in the FortiGate Team do?

 How do we test the solutions?

The results of our activities (which may be days or often weeks of effort) then need to be delivered, typically to senior technical people within a customer organisation. So how do we deliver results?

While lab testing and delivering the results is still the key element of our work, we also find ourselves:

The role of CSE is wide-ranging. It is a very technical job - a great mix of networking, security but also human interaction.

Skills required

Top networking knowledge is necessary. Detailed, and wide, knowledge is mandatory.

For example:

Those would be a typical, but not exhaustive, set of abilities - if you have more, so much the better. 

Expertise in any of these wider areas is valuable to us:

Security skills:

If you have them, they might include:

Product skills? Well, obviously, FortiGate knowledge is a huge plus, but we are flexible on that for the right candidate. Knowledge of competitors' products obviously also a plus.

You must have the motivation and ability to work independently day to day - but rest assured we are a real team - we work together and help each other all the time.

Within the pre-Sales process, we are a point of technical excellence and need to communicate back into the field with our results and advice. So, experience in:

These are a big plus, but, most of all, you need a real enthusiasm and desire to pass knowledge and information to others.

Interested? Don’t hesitate to get in touch.