Overview
In this Principal Engineer role, you own the design and delivery of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions for enterprise and public sector clients. You will act as the Fortinet technical authority and mentor engineers while shaping resilient, multi-site network architectures. The role blends hands-on technical work with design ownership, lab testing, and technical documentation in a hybrid-working setup. You will contribute to complex projects, ensuring security, performance, and regulatory alignment while leading technical leadership initiatives.
Pay / Benefits
- car allowance
- private healthcare
- 26 days paid holiday
- pension
- training & development
- salary bracket 75,000 - 87,000
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design and delivery of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions
- Design scalable, resilient multi-site network architectures
- Serve as Fortinet technical authority for complex design and support issues
- Mentor engineers and architects on networking, security and automation
- Support proof-of-concept builds, lab testing and technical design documentation
- Ensure solutions meet customer requirements, service levels and regulatory standards
Key requirements
- Fortinet SD-WAN design and delivery experience
- Fortinet FCSS certification (essential)
- Expert knowledge of FortiGate, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer
- Experience designing large-scale, resilient, multi-site networks
- Strong knowledge of firewalls, VPNs, segmentation and zero trust principles
- Ability to produce high-level and low-level designs and documentation
- Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and mentoring skills
- strong communication
- stakeholder management
- mentoring
- FortiGate
- FortiManager
- FortiAnalyzer
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