Network Security Firewall – Fortinet – L3

Job Description – Network Security Consultant

The ideal candidate will have deep experience of networking technologies, such as Routing and switching,  Firewalls, proxy, GNAC, IDS/IPS, routing, switching, managing heterogeneous environment & generate metrics related to Security, Network performance, capacity, availability, failure rates, and will also have a strong background in network performance management, service delivery and strategic operations planning with a strong technical orientation & creative in problem solving.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum 5+ years of working in a Network / Telecommunications role, with expert level experience with Routing and Switching , Firewall Management, Proxy Management, IDS/IPS Management, NAC Management, SD-WAN, VPN, Firewalls, etc technologies
• Experience with technologies Forti Manager, FortiAnalyzer, Fortinet Firewalls and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
• Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - scripting and automation via AZ CLI/PowerShell, Bash, Bicep, JSON templates etc.
• Policy as Code (PaS) experience
• Well versed in Azure cloud Security native security tools and network technologies
• Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions
• Experience with assessments of cloud security.
• Hands on experience with IaC tools like, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github.
• Working experience in any public ( Azure, GCP, Oracle , Aws or others) or hybrid cloud
• Experience on Cloud native or third party firewalls on cloud

Knowledge and education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience designing and planning Azure environments in enterprise environments including application dependencies, client presentation mechanisms, network con

Key responsibilities include:

• This is a hands-on technical role:

• • Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.

- Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning for the Security platforms.

- Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.

- Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals

- Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.

- Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.

- Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.

- Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.

• Refresh heat-maps and operations plans for campus network Security connectivity

• Monitor and analyze statistical data to develop improvement plans for network Security and application performance 

• Provide an effective network Security capacity plan

• Develop and monitor global weekly and monthly trending reports by business sectors to justify future growth 

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Oversees and directs all aspects of the 24/7/365 mission critical network/telecommunication infrastructure operations; including planning, supporting, and maintaining functions

• Serves as the senior-level escalation point for cloud security operations to resolve critical incidents 

• Maintains policy and procedures manual, conducts monthly service review meetings with key stakeholders

• Provides leadership, management, direction, and technical oversight for the network Security operations department