Job Description:

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

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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.

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