Fortinet
Regional Sales Engineer
$200K–$240K
Chicago, IL · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 3–5 years in pre-sales or sales engineering roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience); preferred.
About the job
Partners with sales teams to advise customers on cybersecurity strategy, design secure architectures, and guide technical evaluations and deployments.
What you'll do
- Qualify opportunities and align solution strategies with customer business outcomes; lead discovery sessions, workshops, and security assessments.
- Design and present secure architectures and deliver demonstrations to technical stakeholders and executives.
- Support deployment transitions and provide roadmap guidance, operational reviews, and strategic customer check-ins.
What they ask for
- 3–5 years of experience in pre-sales or sales engineering roles in multi-location cybersecurity, networking, or cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of networking and core security protocols.
- Ability to design and explain solutions across endpoint security, SecOps, Zero Trust and SASE, cloud and hybrid security, and identity and access management.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with a record of leading architectural discussions and aligning technical solutions with enterprise business priorities.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience; industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, NSE, CCNP Security, or AWS Security Specialty.
- Consulting or advisory experience with medium enterprise customers and familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or SOC 2.
Pay
$200,000 - 240,000 per year (USD, on-target earnings)
Tools
Firewall, LAN/WAN, VPNs, TCP/IP, IPSec, TLS/SSL, SIEM, SOAR
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