Solution Architect-SASE SDWAN

Responsibilities:

• Member of the SME team which covers India region (India & SAARC Region)
• Expected to work from the office three days per week. This enables collaboration with the extended teams, fostering trusted relationship and teamwork.
• Second level of pre-sales support assisting the field SE organization:
• in responding to RFPs/RFIs: design, solution specification, product information.
• in supporting key projects to ensure Fortinet's success.
• in leading technical discussions, articulating the technology and demonstrating differentiated value.
• in conducting compelling solution presentations, demonstrations and POC (Proof of Concept).
• Hands on assistance
• Responsible for building technical materials to support sales activities (slideware, solution brief, white papers, success stories, technical notes, TOI, etc.) and designing Internal workshops.
• Perform External workshops & PoCs for prospects or customers on product evaluations and do demonstrations, in collaboration with Account SE.
• Perform hands-on tests to validate network designs, customer proof-of-concept setups and network deployments for new products and feature.
• Effectively disseminate product knowledge to the Sales Team and Channel.
• Point of contact for the CSE team: responsible to report and consolidate customer needs across India region, validate business cases, write, and escalate feature requests.
• Report project activities, analyze project trends and provide market vision.
• Participate in the development of commercial strategies.

· Ability to Travel at a short notice, as required within India region.

• Collect information on competitive solutions, products, and services and update the Channel and Account team

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience in a Senior SE, Consulting SE, Technical role within the Networking or IT Security industries.
• Vendor and SI experience.
• Advanced Technical understanding of Routing Protocols, specifically BGP
• Experience in designing Complex Enterprise BGP WAN based network Architectures
• Experience with SDWAN technology, design, site survey, implementation, and troubleshooting. Fortinet SDWAN or Competition SDWAN certification is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in NGFW/UTM/Threat prevention
• Knowledge in SASE technology. Competition SASE certification would be a plus.
• Knowledge in some of the following areas of specialization:
• IPSec Encryption, Controller Architecture, MPLS, Multicast, NAT, VRF, VoIP, QoS, LTE, 5G (Wireless WAN), Certificate based Authentication, BYOD, Packet Capture/Analysis Tools, SSL/TLS, RADIUS/LDAP, AD, SAML
• Scripting knowledge using Python / Bash / PowerShell / Golang or alternative
• Administrative knowledge of Linux
• Knowledge of Public Cloud concepts in technologies like GCP, Azure and AWS
• Knowledge of Private Cloud concepts in technologies like VMWare and KVM
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, Routing, Switching and WLAN, Network Security, SDWAN
• Strong presentation skills to executives & consulting skills
• Demonstrate extensive hands-on level skills in deploying and troubleshooting complex networks
• Setup labs to learn and evaluate new technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A self-motivated, independent thinker.
• An ability to manage multiple tasks and opportunities by prioritizing them efficiently, generate product demand at a large scale and be self-motivated.
• Must be a team player and have exceptional communication skills.
• Bachelor’s Engineering degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, Computer Application or equivalent experience in network security industry