Network Engineer with Strong Fortinet Exp

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2

Skills

Fortinet

Job Details

Title: Network Engineer
Location: United States - Manassas, VA

Work with the Product Owner and Squad members to design, develop, test, configure, upgrade and maintain Fortinet and Checkpoint Firewalls with virtual instances (VDOM/VSX) in line with agreed requirements
Work with your team to implement and operate your solutions
Deploy infrastructure and network software according to our change management processes
Collaborate with our internal and external customers following DevOps/Agile principles and best practices
Assist in developing and maintaining technical documentation
Interact and collaborate with other internal teams to ensure excellent customer satisfaction
Handle issues always focusing on continuous improvement: you will automate, educate and share knowledge transparently.
Opportunity to develop yourself and others in a true DevOps agile environment.
This position is mission critical and offers flexible work (minimum 2 days onsite and maximum 3 days from home per week)
Willing to perform weekend deployment activities and on-call on a rotational basis with peer team members (Estimated: One Saturday out of 4 weekends)


Hands-on experience with Fortinet and Checkpoint Firewalls or similar technologies
Hand-on experience with Firewall management platforms Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer, Checkpoint Smart-One
Familiarity with security policy management tools like Algosec Security Management System
Familiarity with SD-WAN and Zero Trust
Capable of troubleshooting complex network flows, interconnectivity, performance and configuration issues
Provisions/executes firewall requests in accordance with security policies and standards on all environments.
Familiarity with concepts like Zero Touch/Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Scripting in Shell, Python or Perl

Desired technical skills
Certification in Fortinet FCP/FCSS Network Security, Checkpoint CCSA/CCSE, Cisco CCNA
Daily and Weekly FW rule-base management (provisioning, assurance etc.,)
Contribute, plan and execute Firewall product roadmap/evolution upgrades and new features
Independently deploy a new infrastructure/environment i.e. from High Level Design to Detailed Design to Deployment
Identifies problems and inefficiencies within our network and organizational workflows and assists with any recommended remediation/ changes to correct (example: script and automate routine tasks)
Participate in the evaluation of new network technologies
Familiarity with Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow tools for collaboration
Knowledge/experience operating in Linux operating system

Specific Skills

Checkpoint Firewall
Fortinet Firewall
F5 Load balancer
Agile Methodologies
Routing and Switching

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