Fortinet IDS & Firewall Operations Engineer
The Role
Device-level Fortinet appliance engineering and operations not firewall rule/policy management. The person will deploy, onboard, and operate Fortinet IDS/IPS appliances, run FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer, and troubleshoot connectivity and traffic visibility across a large, multi-region data center environment.
Must-have (anchor the search here)
- Hands-on Fortinet FortiGate engineering/operations appliance deployment, onboarding, interface/VLAN config, device health, firmware/patching
- FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer hands-on, not just listed
- Strong TCP/IP and routing fundamentals (BGP, OSPF) able to troubleshoot adjacency, reachability, and traffic-path issues, not just configure them
Strongly preferred
- Traffic visibility engineering: SPAN, TAP, port mirroring on Cisco IOS/NX-OS
- Packet-level troubleshooting (Wireshark/tcpdump)
- Experience validating firewall/NAT connectivity across multiple platforms (Palo Alto, Check Point, Firepower, Fortinet) to support monitoring again, connectivity validation, not rule authorship
- LLD documentation, network topology, operational runbook writing
- Network discovery tooling (NetBrain, Infoblox)
- SIEM log integration (Splunk) and Python/Ansible automation for health checks
