Senior Fortinet Engineer

Join a Team That Solves Complex Security Challenges 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. 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 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 Originally posted on Himalayas