Network Engineer – Fortinet (FortiGate, SD-WAN, BGP/OSPF) – Onsite NYC
About The Position
MaxIT Consulting – Max Corporate Group is seeking a hands-on Network Engineer to support a global professional services organization serving clients in financial services and commercial banking. The role focuses on escalated network incidents, root cause analysis, and designing secure LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, and firewall solutions in a multi-site enterprise environment built predominantly on Fortinet technology. The engineer will design, implement, transition, and troubleshoot enterprise network solutions, resolve incidents ranging from P1 to P4, and guide stakeholders through technical decisions. The environment operates 24x7, requiring flexibility to support critical incidents. The role is onsite in New York City, with occasional travel. It is a permanent, full-time, mid-senior-level position. The position offers a full benefits package and annual bonus eligibility.
Requirements
- 5 to 7 years of professional network engineering experience.
- Fortinet certification at professional or expert level: FCP, FCSS, or NSE 4–8.
- Advanced hands-on experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, and FortiAnalyzer.
- Strong knowledge of eBGP, iBGP, OSPF, IPSEC, traceroute, and NetFlow.
- Extensive experience designing, configuring, and managing enterprise-grade firewall solutions and network security architectures.
- LAN/WAN administration experience, including DHCP, DNS, VLANs, NAT, wireless, and switches.
- Experience designing and deploying multi-site environments with VLANs, MPLS, SSL, and IPSEC.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree.
Nice To Haves
- Cisco or Check Point certifications.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust frameworks and NIST CSF or similar standards.
- Experience with Pulse Secure Access Gateway and Citrix NetScaler ADC load balancers.
- Consultative experience guiding the selection of technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and transition firewalls, switches, access points, and other network solutions.
- Troubleshoot LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, routing, switching, VPN, firewall, and VoIP equipment, predominantly Fortinet.
- Perform root cause analysis for P1, P2, P3, and P4 incidents and critical outages.
- Produce network assessments, capacity plans, detailed designs, implementation and test plans, configuration templates, and scripts.
- Create accurate network diagrams and design documentation using Visio.
- Support web-proxy environments such as Zscaler or McAfee Web Proxy.
- Escalate service issues and risks, and provide guidance to team members.
- Guide stakeholders through technical decisions.
Benefits
- Full benefits package.
- Annual bonus eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
