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Resident Engineer

Posted: 2 days ago
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Remote Work Policy

Remote only

Company Location
Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

RelocationAllowed
Skills
Consolidation
AWS CloudFormation
Cutover
Fortinet
Fortinet Fortigate
Aws Networking
Decommissioning
Cisco FTD
Fortimanager
Fortianalyzer
AWS Network Firewall
Firewall Migration
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Transit Gateway (tgw)
Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
Subnet and TGW Route Table Associations and Propagations
Multi-Regional Architectures
Graviton- and AMD-Based Instance Types

About the job

Role: Resident Engineer

Duration: 12-month

Location: Remote

Position Overview:

The engineer will support the deployment, migration, cutover, consolidation, and optimization of Fortinet solutions within a multi-region AWS environment. The role will focus on FortiGate virtual machines, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, AWS networking, and migration from existing Cisco FTD and AWS Network Firewall infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and configure FortiManager (FMG) virtual machines.
  • Build and configure FortiAnalyzer (FAZ) virtual machines.
  • Provision and cut over FortiGate virtual machines within an Inspection VPC.
  • Support AWS inspection cutover across six regions migrating to Fortinet.
  • Decommission 12 AWS Network Firewalls.
  • Provision and cut over a Central Security VPC to Fortinet.
  • Migrate and consolidate 21 Cisco FTD firewalls to Fortinet.
  • Support FTD migration and consolidation onto the Fortinet platform.
  • Decommission legacy FTD infrastructure.
  • Access, configure, and enable optimized security policies.

Qualifications:

  • Hands-on experience with AWS networking services and architectures, including:
  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Transit Gateway (TGW)
  • Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
  • AWS Network Firewall
  • Subnet and TGW route table associations and propagations
  • Multi-regional architectures
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Graviton- and AMD-based instance types
  • Strong experience implementing and supporting FortiGate in AWS environments.
  • Experience with firewall migration, cutover, consolidation, and decommissioning activities.
  • Ability to support complex cloud-network and security changes in a multi-region AWS environment.

Tools and Technologies:

  • Fortinet FortiGate
  • FortiManager (FMG)
  • FortiAnalyzer (FAZ)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • AWS VPC, TGW, and GWLB
  • AWS Network Firewall
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Cisco FTD
  • Terraform

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience deploying Active/Passive and Active/Active FortiGate architectures in AWS, including an understanding of the feature constraints that influence architecture selection.
  • Experience deploying FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer in AWS.
  • Experience with Terraform.