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Regional Sales Engineer, SLED

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Compensation
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Location
Nashville, TN
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

The Systems Engineer supports the sales organization on technical matters across pre-sales, sales calls, and post-sales. The role works with Regional Account Managers, serves as a technical resource for customers and partners, and coordinates with technical support and engineering to resolve customer issues. It also assists customers with post-sales training.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical Pre-Sales SupportLAN/WAN AdministrationDNSNFSSMTPHTTPTCP/IPRoutingSwitchingVPNNetwork SecurityIntrusion DetectionAntivirusRADIUSPKIIKECertificatesL2TPIPsecFirewalls802.1QMD5SSHSSLSHA-1DES3DESEncryptionAuthenticationPresentation Skills

Qualifications

1-3 Years Technical Pre-Sales Experience3-5 Years LAN/WAN Administration ExperienceBachelor's or Equivalent ExperienceGraduate Degree

Full job description

 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 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:

  • 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:

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate Degree favorable

Why Join Us This is an opportunity to operate at the intersection of cybersecurity strategy, executive engagement, and customer success, influencing large-scale enterprise organizations as they modernize operations and adopt cutting-edge solutions. If you excel at combining technical depth with executive presence, this role will allow you to shape customer outcomes while growing your career in a dynamic security landscape.

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,153 open Sales Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Tennessee median$124–184K/yr20 salary ranges
  • US median$32–40/hr23 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 22 open Sales Engineer jobs in Tennessee and 2,153 across the US. 24% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Tennessee
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Sales Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,700 postings).
Education
591 of the 2,153 open Sales Engineer jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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