Consulting Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Lab Infrastructure & Automation (primary focus)

• Own the day-to-day operation maintenance and lifecycle management of the regional laboratory showroom and demonstration facilities serving sales and marketing across Latin America.
• Design deploy and continuously optimize the labs compute storage networking and virtualization fabric for high availability performance and security.
• Treat the lab as code: build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code configuration management and CI/CD pipelines to provision version and tear down repeatable demo and POC environments on demand.
• Automate routine operations: backups snapshots patching environment resets capacity and energy monitoring and health checks. Enable tooling to accelerate operations troubleshooting and documentation.
• Monitor troubleshoot and remediate physical and virtual infrastructure; provide on-site support for cabling device shipping logistics and physical safety inspections.
• Maintain accurate version-controlled documentation of all configurations topologies and changes.

Pre-Sales & Technical Enablement (supporting focus)

• Support strategic pre-sales engagements and key opportunities as a high-level regional technical resource with emphasis on lab-backed demonstrations and POCs.
• Plan and execute proof-of-concept initiatives on-site and remotely using lab infrastructure to validate solution designs against customer requirements.
• Conduct technical meetings presentations and demonstrations for customers and partners and act as a subject-matter expert in design reviews.
• Build demo guides and reusable assets that help field engineers and partners deliver faster higher-quality demonstrations.
• Work with Product Management and Engineering to surface lab/demo requirements and help qualify features critical to Fortinets success.
• Provide training and mentorship to Systems Engineers and partners at regional events and within virtual teams.

Teamwork & Operating Cadence

• Operate within a distributed team contribute to internal engineering communities comply with activity reporting and communicate proactively with the CSE Manager / Director. Domestic and international travel is required.

Requirements (Knowledge Skills & Abilities)

Must-have

• Years of technical experience in networking computing or data-center/lab infrastructure with a track record of building and operating complex environments.
• Hands-on administration of Windows and Linux plus virtualization and private-cloud platforms (e.g. VMware vSphere KVM or OpenStack) including building and optimizing a virtual data center.
• Scripting and automation: Python and Bash Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible Terraform) Git-based workflows and comfort working with REST APIs.
• Strong grasp of network infrastructure (switching routing BGP/OSPF) and network security enforcement (NGFW/VPN segmentation authentication).
• Excellent written and verbal communication and documentation skills; able to present to technical and business audiences and manage complex work plans.

Bonus

• Modern secure access (SD-WAN SASE ZTNA) public cloud (AWS Azure GCP) and containers/Kubernetes.
• SIEM/SOAR and observability tooling; traffic generation and validation tools (e.g. Ixia BreakingPoint).
• Familiarity with AI/ML applied to infrastructure operations observability and content generation.
• Relevant certifications (Fortinet NSE/FCX/FCSS CISSP CISM) or cloud/automation certifications.

Education & Languages

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• English and Spanish required (B2 level or higher); Portuguese a strong plus.