Systems Engineering Intern - London, UK

Systems Engineer Intern (Fluent/Business Level English)

Location: London, UK

Experience: 0-3 Years

Position: Hybrid

About us:

As a leading vendor in the cybersecurity industry, Fortinet secures the largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations around the world. To that end, our portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products is the largest integrated offering available, delivering proven cybersecurity everywhere it is needed. More than 730,000 customers trust Fortinet solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. 

As a cybersecurity leader, we believe that it is our duty to help make the world a safer and more sustainable place. That is why, beyond our commitment to cybersecurity and networking technology innovation, we strive to:

• Reduce the environmental footprint of our technology with a commitment to ensure each generation of our products consumes less energy, while promoting responsible business across our value chain
• Eliminate the global cybersecurity skills shortage by maintaining one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry with a focus on diversifying talent
• Foster cooperation against cybercrime through partnerships that help shape the future of cyber-threat mitigation and by sharing actionable threat intelligence between public and private organizations. 

We are looking for Intern Systems Engineers to work within a highly experienced and motivated technical sales team of over 70 professionals in UK and Ireland. The Systems Engineering team leads all technical aspects and positioning of Fortinet Security solutions as part of the sales cycles within our customers. 

As a Systems Engineer, you will:

• Develop fundamental understanding of the Fortinet portfolio with appropriate industry standard certification, in addition to attaining Fortinet Certified Fundamentals and Fortinet Certified Associate certifications
• Grow your professional and technical skills via training, coaching and practice that will be provided and supported by your Fortinet team
• Work alongside the Systems Engineers (SEs), with rotations through each customer segment.
• Have hands-on experience of the sales cycle as you assist and shadow SEs in customer meetings, workshops, product evaluations and more
• Involvement with managing the day to day operations of our London demo lab including:
• Operational capabilities including maintaining software currency and demonstrations
• Develop and implement customer demonstrations with guidance from the SE team
• Assist SE's with creating solution proposals and running customer demonstrations
• Develop soft skills such as presentation and white boarding skills.
• Research topics of interest, extracting relevant points and presenting these back to the Systems Engineering community
• Present and Participate in Outreach, STEAM and CSR events. Whereby you can share your knowledge and skills learnt, with our future cyber talent

This will be through a combination of on-the-job training, one to one mentoring, formal on-line and classroom training, in addition to attendance at company events and seminars. 

Requirements: 

• The student should be a 2nd Year Undergraduate Student studying a relevant degree with a strong Network Security or cybersecurity component to the syllabus
• Basic Networking knowledge is essential
• A-Level Computing Science or similar would be desirable
• Strong interest in Network and Cybersecurity 

What you can expect from us:

• On the job and more formal online training and development opportunities, with the possibility to get the industry recognized certifications.
• Mentorship from our talented and experienced Systems Engineers that will support you throughout. 
• A competitive salary, health and welfare benefits.
• To participate in regular social activities including team events, team walks, charity fund-raising events and quarterly off-site Sales Engineering meetings. 

 

Apply now if you want to grow your career with a leading global cybersecurity company with 19 successive years of double-digit growth!!!

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value the diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality in addition to any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

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.