Systems Engineering Manager

Job Description/Purpose:

Fortinet has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective and motivated leader to be part of the Systems Engineering Team. The ideal candidate will exhibit strong leadership skills, will be forward thinking, will be self-motivated, and will be able to work effectively in a diverse, highly talented team, continuously striving for excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

The primary role of a Systems Engineering Manager is to provide leadership and guidance to a highly skilled Systems Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• The development of your direct reports through coaching, performance management and training.
• Setting clear expectations of team deliverables and measurements.
• Recruit and mentor new members to the team.
• Work closely with the sales account leaders on strategic plans to maintain, secure, and grow the Fortinet footprint.
• Manage and align key features and functionality that are instrumental to business success.
• Work closely with the escalation management teams.
• Strive to develop strong relationships within the team, internally at a corporate level, and externally with key customers and partners.
• Manage and coordinate with the relevant teams to deliver winning contract bids and RFx responses.
• Encourage knowledge sharing within the team and across the other sales verticals.
• Embrace and apply organization processes, methodologies and processes in leading and managing the team.

Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years general networking industry experience, including a practicing knowledge of the following: Routing, Switching, VPN (IPSEC/SSL), LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Anti Virus & ATP.
• 5 – 8 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
• Thorough understanding of the pre-sales engineering process and sales processes.
• Experience in managing technical projects and leading teams of highly technical individuals.
• Demonstrated strong written, oral and presentation skills with the ability to discuss highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive level technical decision-makers.
• Experience in developing cost effective solutions around customer needs.
• Travel: In Territory - 95%, Out of Territory - 5%

Education:

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate degree preferred