Presales Security Expert
Fortinet · Ottawa, Canada · Systems Engineering
mid
Security Analyst
ic
3+ yrs Bachelor's
· Posted Mar 19, 2026
Skills
About this role
Fortinet is hiring a mid-level Security Analyst based in Ottawa, Canada. The posting calls out experience with Networking, Encryption and roughly 3+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Security Analyst
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Ottawa, Canada
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Systems Engineering
- Posted
- Mar 19, 2026
AI Summary
Inside Presales Security Expert supporting sales with technical expertise across pre-sales qualification, sales calls, and post-sales support. Requires 3+ years technical/pre-sales experience, bilingual French/English fluency, and deep networking/security protocol knowledge including routing, VPN, firewalls, and encryption technologies.
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Job description
from Fortinet careersThe Inside Presales Security Expert'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/ educate the customer and partner on issues 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:
- Bilingual in French and English
- 3 year’s experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
- 3 year’s experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
- Solid 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.
- Prove 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
- Excellent presentation skills
- Required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.
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