Network Engineer

Title: Network Engineer – Fortinet

Location: London, UK

Contract: 12 months

What you'll do

• Elicit business and technical requirements working with various partners during requirements collection phase.

• Author High Level and Low Level Design Documents to support Enterprise and Mobile Services

• Own software/hardware selection perform bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments and work with Test and Delivery engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.

• Participate in vendor selection by providing technical requirements into RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Proof of Concept testing.

• Steer network security elements’ feature roadmap by working closely with our strategic technology partners for software release planning, budget submissions and provide inputs for case preparation.

• Drive platform improvements enable automation and implement new solutions that enable DevOps capabilities and support business strategy of building once and deploy multiple time.

What you’ll bring

Must haves:

• Fortinet NSE4 certification and strong hands-on experience of FortiGate firewalls, FortiAnalyser and fortimanager

• Solid grasp of firewall architecture.

• Demonstrable experience in crafting and owning both High Level Design and Low Level Design documentation.

• Good understanding of configuring firewall policies, address objects, NAT, Interfaces, Zones, Dynamic Routing (BGP), logging.

• Good understanding of routing and switching especially of Nokia SROS devices (e.g. 7750) would be advantageous, else Cisco (CCNA/CCNP); MPLS

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, F5 LTM/GTM (or other load balancing) and Mobile 5G technologies

• Ability to apply Open-config and Vendor specific NETCONF-YANG models, JSON and XML payload for network automation to configure and manage firewalls

• Knowledge of Python and GIT to manage configuration templates and develop Automation solution