Systems Engineer - Public Sector Netherlands

As a Systems Engineer at Fortinet, you enable the sales team with deep technical expertise in cybersecurity and networking for pre-sales engagements. You will be the primary technical point on calls, help qualify leads, and educate customers on features, integration, and performance. You’ll work closely with clients to address networking and security needs and provide post-sales training. This role blends technical depth with customer-facing influence, contributing to Fortinet’s mission to safeguard people, devices, and data everywhere. You will play a pivotal part in shaping security solutions for the public sector from the Netherlands hub.

• Assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint (pre-sales)
• Serve as the main technical resource on sales calls
• Explain features, specifications, and functionality and discuss integration with customers
• Demonstrate fluency in networking applications and solutions
• Provide post-sales training support to identified customers

• 5–8 years experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales or systems engineer
• 5–8 years experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
• Strong understanding of DNS, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP
• Knowledge of routing, switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, network security, IDS, antivirus
• Proficiency in RADIUS, PKI, IKE, certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, firewall, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies
• Strong presentation skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; graduate degree preferred
• Native/Fluent in Dutch

• Strong presentation skills
• Influential collaborator
• Customer-focused communication
• Routing
• Switching
• VPN