Senior Network and Security Engineer (Fortinet Focus, Remote)
Full-time contract role for a Network and Security Engineer with extensive Fortinet experience. Responsibilities include building, operating, and improving core service provider networks. Requires a secure remote workspace and is not open to US Citizens or Green Card holders.
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Job Description
For Recruiters:
- At this time, WLC is not accepting 3rd party candidate representation for this role.
Position Details:
- Network and security engineer functions.
- Full time contract position, fully remote.
- Mon-Fri normal business hours following the seasonal EST(UTC-5) and EDT(UTC-4) time.
- After hours maintenances Sun-Sat nights, as required and scheduled in advance.
- Not available to US Citizens, Green Card holders, or individuals working in the USA.
Responsibilities:
- Member of the Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, and Planning group, reporting into the Manager of Infrastructure.
- Build, operate, manage, and improve upon the core service provider network. This including transit, WAN, LAN, remote access, peering, network automation, AAA, hardware, firmware, inside plant engineering, core and edge security, and backbone.
Qualifications:
- Quiet and secure workspace with a minimum of 2 good quality Internet connections, from which to complete WLC tasks and responsibilities using WLC-provided equipment.
- Three, or greater, years of Fortinet routing, switching, firewall, and access point experience, in an engineering role, within Service Provider and/or Data Center environments.
- Fluent with advanced Fortinet FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiToken, and FortiAuth platforms, configurations, monitoring, alerting, management, and troubleshooting.
- Confident managing inside plant power, cables, interconnects, racks, cabinets, horizontal and vertical layouts, assets, etc. related to network infrastructure.
- Deep configuration, functionality, and troubleshooting knowledge of multi-chassis multi-location HA/fail-over techniques, VDOMs, BGP, VRF, MPBGP, ACLs, VLANs, HSRP, and OSPF.
- Understanding and familiarity of AAA management, monitoring functions, systems backups, and change management methods.
- Expert in building, managing, configuring, and maintaining development, lab, pre-production, and production infrastructure, such as but not limited to firmware, separation of traffic, network and/or traffic isolation, and centralized logging.
- Ability to develop and maintain compliance for ISO 27001, SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI standards and certification requirements.
- Experience with Cisco routers, switches, and security is desired.
- Higher level active Fortinet certifications, or your quick renewal of expires certifications, is highly desired.
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