Resident Engineer with FortiGate and Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise for a 12-month, US-remote contract engagement. 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.
Note: This is a W2 only role — C2C, C2H will not be considered
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.
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Not Specified