Are you a Fortinet expert who enjoys designing, implementing, and optimizing secure network environments? 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.
This is a remote position, with preference given to candidates located in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, or Ohio.
What You'll Do- 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.
What You'll Bring- 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.
CertificationsRequired- 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
Why Join Us?- 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.
If you're passionate about network security, Fortinet technologies, and delivering excellent client outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.Compensation: starting from $120,000 base + quarterly bonus opportunity
