Professional Services Engineer

ForeScout Technologies, Inc.
401(k)
United States, California, San Jose
190 West Tasman Drive (Show on map)
Oct 18, 2025
Shape the Future of Cybersecurity at Forescout Every day cyberattacks threaten to disrupt hospitals, power grids, financial systems, and the infrastructure we all depend on. At Forescout, we build the defenses that keep civilization running smoothly in an increasingly connected world. For more than 25 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. From power grids and healthcare systems to financial networks and transportation hubs, Forescout protects the critical infrastructure of our modern world. What You Will Do Forescout has an excellent opportunity for a strategic and business-focused Professional Services Engineer to join our high-energy, multi-cultural, world-changing team. 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. In this role you will: 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. Must be able to work onsite at the client location either in Plano, TX or NYC. What You Will Bring We encourage you to apply if you meet most but not all the desired skills and experience listed in this job posting. We value competencies, aptitude, and a great attitude as supplement to experience. Candidates must reside either in the DFW area, or NYC 3-5 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. 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 experience working in demanding and challenging environments Design and architecture experience a plus. Technical support experience a plus. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry experience. ForeScout Certified Administrator (FSCA) and ForeScout Certified Engineer (FSCE) a plus. CISSP and/or PMP certification a plus. A self-motivated individual with a 'can do' attitude What Forescout Offers You Competitive compensation and benefits-we cover 88% of employee and dependents' health care premiums, 100% company paid employee life and disability insurance premiums, 401K match, generous FTO policy (U.S. only), option to purchase voluntary life, accident and critical illness insurance, employee assistance program, maternity and parental bonding leave with supplemental pay and much more Collaborative and innovative environment -make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development Want a glimpse of Life @ Forescout? Check us out on Facebook and Instagram Learn more @ www.forescout.com Our Mission - Continuously identify, protect, and ensure the compliance of all cyber assets across the modern organization. Our Cultural Values One Team - We all work together, and we all win together. Cyber Obsessed - We are curious about technology, and we are innovative and passionate about solving big programs. Customer Driven - We listen, we learn, and we make it right. Relentless - We're smart, determined, and find a way. We figure stuff out. Collaborative, without Ego - No one succeeds alone. We strive to be the humble person that people want to work with. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply! *NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:* We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Forescout does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Forescout employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Employment Placement Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired because of the referral or through other means. 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.