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Senior Network Engineer – Cisco ACI & Fortinet
for
Melbourne -Hybrid
Senior Network Engineer – Cisco ACI & Fortinet
Australian PR
Melbourne
Hybrid (1 day a week onsite)
6 months
Technical skills:
Strong recent, hands-on experience with
Cisco ACI
in complex enterprise or data centre environments
(APIC, leaf/spine architecture, tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains, EPGs, contracts and filters, L2Out/L3Out, fabric policies, Multi-Pod/Multi-Site).
Solid hands-on experience administering
Fortinet FortiGate firewalls (firewall policies, NAT, IPsec and SSL VPN, HA, security profiles, FortiManager and/or FortiAnalyzer).
Advanced knowledge of routing protocols including
BGP and OSPF, plus strong TCP/IP and Layer 2/Layer 3 networking (VLANs, VRFs, segmentation, high-availability architectures).
Strong network troubleshooting using packet captures, logs and diagnostic tools, with root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.




Experience implementing changes in production environments using formal change-management processes.
Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills
Mandatory Experience -
Cisco ACI
Fortinet Firewall and SASE Products
BGP and OSPF
Desirable previous experience of:
Cisco certifications (CCNP Data Center, CCNP Enterprise or CCIE) and/or Fortinet certifications (FCP, FCSS or NSE equivalent).
Cisco Nexus switching and VXLAN/EVPN.
Integrating ACI with Fortinet or other next-generation firewall platforms.
Network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform or REST APIs.
Cloud networking across Azure and/or AWS.
Government, Defence or critical infrastructure environments, including knowledge of the Australian Government ISM and Essential Eight.
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📌 Senior Network Engineer – Cisco Aci & Fortinet -Melbourne
🏢 IT Alliance Australia
📍 Melbourne