Fortinet Firewall Engineer

Remote | Project-Based Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Network / Fortinet Firewall Engineer to support a critical infrastructure migration project. This is a temporary, remote, project-based position focused on migrating core firewall infrastructure from Cisco to Fortinet while ensuring security, reliability, and minimal disruption to production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support the migration of enterprise firewall environments from Cisco ASA/Firepower to Fortinet FortiGate.
• Analyze and translate existing firewall policies, NAT rules, VPN configurations, routing, network objects, and security settings.
• Develop detailed migration, implementation, validation, and rollback plans to minimize production downtime.
• Design and implement FortiGate High Availability (HA) and redundant firewall configurations.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and optimize complex network and firewall environments.
• Support troubleshooting efforts during and after the migration to ensure a smooth transition.
• Collaborate remotely with internal technical teams throughout the duration of the project.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and FortiOS.
• Proven experience migrating enterprise firewall environments from Cisco ASA and/or Firepower to Fortinet.
• Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VLANs, High Availability (HA), IPSec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and enterprise network architecture.
• Experience developing and executing detailed firewall migration and rollback strategies.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex network security and connectivity issues remotely.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a data center, cloud hosting, multi-tenant, or managed service provider environment.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise-level network infrastructure.
• Relevant Fortinet certifications are a plus.