Senior Fortinet Engineer

Remote position with preference for candidates located in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, or Ohio.

About the Role

Join a team that solves complex security challenges. We're looking for a Senior Fortinet Network Security Engineer to lead high-impact projects for clients ranging from mid-sized businesses to enterprise organizations. In this role, you'll work directly with customers to design and deploy advanced Fortinet solutions, lead complex migrations, and serve as a trusted technical expert throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support advanced Fortinet security solutions.
• Lead customer engagements from discovery and design through implementation and documentation.
• Implement and support FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP environments.
• Design and configure Secure SD-WAN, ADVPN, BGP, OSPF, IPsec VPN, and remote access solutions.
• Perform firewall migrations from Palo Alto, Cisco, SonicWall, Check Point, and other platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex networking, security, wireless, and authentication issues.
• Collaborate with customers, project managers, architects, and technology partners to deliver successful outcomes.
• Mentor fellow engineers and serve as a technical escalation resource.
• Help maintain and strengthen our Fortinet partnership through continued certification and technical excellence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of network security, firewall, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Fortinet design and implementation experience.
• Advanced knowledge of FortiGate/FortiOS.
• Experience with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.
• Strong understanding of routing, switching, TCP/IP, VLANs, NAT, DNS, DHCP, high availability, and network segmentation.
• Expertise with VPN technologies, SD-WAN, dynamic routing, and multi-site environments.
• Proven ability to lead customer-facing technical projects and solve complex challenges independently.
• Excellent communication and customer relationship skills.

Certifications

• Required: Active Fortinet NSE 4 certification.
• Preferred: NSE 7 certification; NSE 8 certification.
• Additional Fortinet certifications in Security Operations, SASE, Cloud, or Infrastructure.

Bonus Experience

• MSP, consulting, systems integrator, or VAR environments.
• Enterprise-scale network security deployments.
• FortiSASE, FortiNAC, FortiAuthenticator, FortiClient EMS, FortiWeb, or FortiSIEM.
• Azure or AWS network security.
• Technical leadership and engineer mentoring.

Benefits

• Work on complex, enterprise-class security projects.
• Partner with industry-leading clients and technologies.
• Grow your expertise within a highly certified Fortinet practice.
• Collaborate with talented engineers who are passionate about delivering exceptional outcomes.
• Be recognized as a trusted technical leader and security expert.

Pay

Compensation: starting from $120,000 base + quarterly bonus opportunity.

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