Fortinet
Sales Engineer, SLED
$200K–$240K
Los Angeles, CA +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Irvine, CA
Pasadena, CA
San Diego, CA - Experience
- Minimum 5 years in cybersecurity, with heavy ICS/OT emphasis, and at least 5 years in customer-facing pre-sales engineering or technical consulting.
About the job
Supports Fortinet’s SLED sales teams by advising customers on cybersecurity solutions and handling technical work across pre-sales, sales, and post-sales.
What you'll do
- Build customer relationships, recommend solutions, and create and present product demonstrations.
- Partner with Account Executives and lead proof-of-concept deployments, from setup through troubleshooting.
- Provide technical content for proposals, RFPs, and project scopes, and represent Fortinet at industry events.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years of cybersecurity experience, with heavy emphasis on ICS/OT.
- At least 5 years in customer-facing pre-sales engineering or technical consulting.
- Practical familiarity with ICS/OT, including industrial protocols, DCS, and SCADA; strong networking and systems architecture knowledge, including OSI and Purdue models, TCP/IP, and Linux CLI.
- Hands-on packet analysis and security operations telemetry experience; proficiency deploying and managing solutions in cloud and virtualized infrastructures.
Pay
$200,000 - $240,000 per year (on-target earnings; compensation type not specified)
Tools
ICS/OT, DCS, SCADA, OSI, Purdue, TCP/IP, Linux CLI, Wireshark/Tshark
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