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Role Overview: We are looking for Principal Systems Engineers, with Operational Technology & Critical Infrastructure experience, to work within an OT Global team within Fortinet to enable our Sales and Systems Engineering organization to be highly successful within sales calls and systems engineering to Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure customers and their environments. The Systems Engineer's mission will be to enable the Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure organization to strongly validate design solutions presented to the Sales and Systems Engineering Organization as a Reference Architecture (RA) to build their business from within these target clients. They will also support the Global compliance, laws, regulations, etc. of these Operational Technology & Critical Infrastructure systems by mapping these criterias back to our Fortinet products. Your Key Responsibilities: * Pre-sales - Assist in qualifying sales leads, from a technical standpoint, of Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure Security Solutions. This could also include the compliance, laws, regulations, etc. that map to our Fortinet products. * Sales calls - Enabling technical resources on sales calls and answer/educate the customer on issues ranging from features, specifications, and functionality to the integration of Fortinets products for Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure Security Solutions in the Purdue model. This could also include the compliance, laws, regulations, etc. that map to our Fortinet products. * Conversant with Operational Technology, Information Technology, L1 to L7 networking, applications and solutions. * Review product Reference Architecture and functional specification, design and execute test plan to ensure field success of a real world deployed solution. * Technically document Reference Architectures as a Technical Guide for end users within Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure clients to follow wh .
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