A growing Sydney based MSP arelooking for a genuinely hands‑on Fortinet engineer to join their team onsite on a permanent basis. You’ll be working on large enterprise firewall migration projects, owning the work from design through to cutover and providing L3 support for complex Fortinet environments.
This is a 100% project-focused role, so you’ll spend your time delivering, not maintaining. We’re after someone who has configured, upgraded, migrated and troubleshot Fortinet platforms in the real world, and can show it.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing and planning large-scale firewall migrations, including third-party firewall to FortiGate
- Producing High Level Designs (HLD) and Low Level Designs (LLD)
- Hands‑on implementation and configuration of FortiGate, FortiOS and FortiManager
- Planning and executing cutovers, including validation and rollback
- Upgrading FortiOS and managing Fortinet estates through FortiManager
- Providing L3 troubleshooting for complex Fortinet environments, including advanced VPN issues
About you
- Proven hands‑on experience with FortiGate, FortiOS and FortiManager: configuring, upgrading, migrating and troubleshooting
- Direct involvement in large enterprise firewall migration projects (not just exposure or support)
- Experience writing HLD and LLD documentation and delivering them hands‑on
- Full migration lifecycle experience: design, planning, configuration, cutover validation, rollback and troubleshooting
- Robust networking foundation, including BGP
Highly regarded
- Experience with FortiAuthenticator, FortiProxy and FortiADC
- Python scripting or automation to speed up migration work
- Fortinet certifications (NSE 4 / NSE 5 / NSE 7 or equivalent)
- Experience in telco or large enterprise environments