Professional Services Engineer
A Forescout Professional Services Engineer (PSE) provides technical and consultative services to their assigned accounts to drive the adoption and maturation of the customers’ Forescout deployments. The post sales engineer must be able to solve technical and process challenges to ensure customer success. The PSE must also understand the customer environment (people, process and technology) and how the Forescout deployment supports the customer goals and use cases. The PSE role is to ensure solution success, customer satisfaction and account renewal/expansion.
Responsibilities
- Customer consultation to determine outcomes, success criteria and challenges/gaps. Develop and implement plans of action to close gaps and drive successful outcomes.
- Administer and mature customer enterprise deployment of the Forescout solution.
- Interface with Forescout Support and/or R&D to resolve technical issues that may impede success.
- Define and create polices in accordance with customer’s business requirements.
- Manage equipment installation and configuration at all locations, to include lab environments.
- Manage Forescout software and hardware upgrades
- Manage of the ForeScout solution in accordance with the customer’s business goals.
- Create customer reports to achieve project alignment and unity of effort.
- 8+ years of experience in an IT related field
- Consultative experience designing and advocating for best-practice solutions
- Minimum 3 years of experience with network hardware configuration
- 3 years of significant experience with Windows based operating systems and Unix systems, specifically Linux.
- Expertise deploying large scale enterprise deployments/data centers
- Experience deploying and/or supporting enterprise security software products such as firewalls, IPS, Anti-Virus solutions, application firewalls, high availability solutions, network management systems and virtual systems.
- Experience implementing complicated software products that involve multiple components
- Ability to clearly document complicated steps and procedures
- Design and architecture experience a plus
- Working knowledge of shell, perl and xml scripting.
- Excellent communications skills, strong customer orientation, good organizational skills, self-driven with ability to multi-task on various projects and aptitude to learn new technologies
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience working in demanding and challenging environments
- US technical support experience a plus
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- ForeScout Certified Administrator (FSCA) required, ForeScout Certified Engineer (FSCE) a plus
- CISSP and/or PMP certification a plus.
Forescout Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value and embrace diversity, equality, inclusion, and collaboration at the core of our “One Team” philosophy. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.