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