Senior Network Engineer (Fortinet)
Up to £470 per day (Umbrella) with Potential Flexibility for the Right Candidate | Initial 6-Month Contract (Extension Highly Likely) | Liverpool (Hybrid)
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join their infrastructure team on an initial 6-month contract, with great potential for extensions.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on supporting, maintaining, troubleshooting and enhancing a complex enterprise network environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the stability, security and performance of critical network infrastructure while supporting both operational and project-based activities.
Location & Working Arrangements
- Liverpool based
- Hybrid working model with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite
- Monday to Friday
- Free onsite parking
- Occasional out-of-hours work to support planned changes, maintenance activities and major incidents
Key Responsibilities
- Provide BAU support, maintenance and proactive monitoring across the network infrastructure
- Troubleshoot and resolve network incidents, service degradations and outages
- Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
- Administer and support FortiGate Firewall environments
- Implement approved network changes, upgrades and security improvements
- Work closely with infrastructure, server and security teams to deliver technical projects
- Maintain high standards of documentation and operational procedures
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience administering FortiGate firewalls
- Security policy management, VPNs, remote access and Firewall troubleshooting
- Enterprise-scale LAN/WAN support and administration
- Data centre networking experience
- Routing and switching expertise
- Strong knowledge of:
- TCP/IP
- VLANs
- DHCP
- DNS
- NTP
- OSPF
- BGP
- Network monitoring, diagnostics and performance optimisation
- Incident investigation and problem management
- High availability and resilient network architectures
- Network segmentation and security zoning
- Disaster recovery and business continuity networking
- Load balancing and failover technologies
Desirable Certifications
- Fortinet FCP/NSE
- CCNP Enterprise
- ITIL Foundation
If you are an experienced Network Engineer with strong Fortinet expertise and experience supporting enterprise network environments, we would be keen to hear from you.