Technical Support Engineer

**Job Title**:
Technical Support Engineer, Level 1 or 2 - FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer/FortiPortal products

**Reports to**:
Technical Support Manager

**Location**:
EMEA Support Centers - Prague, Czech Republic or Sophia Antipolis, France.

**Job Description Summary**:
All positions require strong oral and written communication skills. Oral communication skills include the ability to speak clearly and persuasively, to listen carefully to ensure full understanding of the situation, and to respond well to questions when dealing with both positive and negative situations. All positions also require the ability to write clearly to provide full information as well as to understand and interpret written information.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Document and manage reported technical issues
- Monitor and respond to customer inquiries accurately and with a sense of urgency
- Manage customer communication, assuring timely status updates and issue resolution
- Collaborate within the company, escalating issues and engaging others to solve difficult problems
- Calm and patient attitude to listen to problems. Perform research and lab testing in order to drive a reported issue towards a resolution
- Take ownership of overall customer satisfaction, recognize high priority situations and take appropriate escalation action.
- Manage multiple issues in parallel, taking responsibility for meeting SLAs

**Competencies**
- Analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Passionate about support and service delivery by giving customers a quality experience
- Ability to see challenging problems as opportunities to discover something new
- Must possess the desire to develop the skills necessary to maintain and troubleshoot diverse technologies
- Should be inquisitive, customer focused, hard-working, interested in exploring variety of technologies, having a strong desire to build your technical expertise.

**General Requirements for Level 1**
- Strong understanding of data networking protocols, specifically TCP/IP, routing and switching
- Administrative knowledge of Windows and Linux
- Experience with one or more of the following products (FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiGate) is desirable
- Fortinet NSE4 and/or NSE5 certifications or related industry certifications is an advantage
- Ability to understand network traffic traces decoded with Wireshark
- Experience with VMware and/or other virtualization or cloud technologies
- Previous experience with network management and log analysis tools would be an advantage
- Database knowledge is an advantage
- Python, Perl and Bash shell scripting language knowledge is an advantage

**Additional Requirements for Level 2**
- Prior experience and knowledge of the FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiGate products.
- A solid working knowledge and understanding of the Linux operating system
- Python, Perl and Bash shell scripting language knowledge
- JavaScript knowledge is an advantage.
- Familiarity with API development tools, along with JSON and XML data structures
- SQlite, PostgreSQL (Postgres) and MySQL database knowledge

**Educational and Experience Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
- Advanced knowledge of English (written and spoken) - other languages are an advantage.
- 1 to 5 years of previous work experience depending on the job level
- Suitable for different levels of experiences in networking and/or security industry.

**Benefits**:

- Stable multicultural working environment of fast growing world-wide company
- Career development opportunities
- Great opportunity to develop technical skills and knowledge
- Trainings and Fortinet certifications
- Competitive salary
- Employee stock program