About this role

Fortinet is hiring a mid-level Sales Engineer based in Baton Rouge, LA. The posting calls out experience with Networking, Encryption and roughly 4–8 years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role: Sales Engineer
Function: sales
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Experience: 4–8 years
Education: Bachelor's degree
Department: Systems Engineering
Posted: Nov 25, 2025

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Mid-level Systems Engineer supporting regional sales teams on technical pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales support. Requires 1-3 years pre-sales experience and 3-5 years LAN/WAN administration with expertise in networking, security, VPN, routing, and encryption technologies.

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Job description

from Fortinet careers

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to work closely with multiple Regional Account Managers within the regional territory. The Systems Engineer's main mission will be to support the sales organization in all technical matters regarding pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales.

Responsibilities:

Pre-sales - assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint.
Sales calls - be the main technical resource on sales calls and answer or educate the customer and partner onissues ranging from features, specifications and functionality to integration.
Conversant with networking applications and solutions.
Post-sales - be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues and will work closely with the technical support team and engineering to answer, elevate and resolve customer's technical issues.
Provide assistance to identified customers with post-sales training.

Required Skills:

1-3 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
3-5 years experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
Proven understanding of DNS and NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP
Knowledge of the following technologies: Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, and Anti Virus.
Solid understanding in the following technologies and protocols: RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES
Experience with encryption and authentication technologies required
Exceptional presentation skills

Education: