Principal Fortinet Engineer

In this Principal Engineer role, you own the end-to-end design and delivery of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions for enterprise and public sector clients. You will act as the Fortinet technical authority, shape multi-site architectures and mentor engineers while supporting proof-of-concept and lab testing. The role blends hands-on technical work with design ownership and leadership in a growing infrastructure services business. You’ll work hybrid with periodic travel and help drive secure, high-performance networking outcomes.

• car allowance
• private healthcare
• 26 days paid holiday
• pension
• training & development

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions
• Design scalable, resilient multi-site network architectures for enterprise/public sector
• Serve as the Fortinet technical specialist and escalation point for complex issues
• Mentor engineers and architects, promoting best practices in networking, security, and automation
• Support proof-of-concept builds, lab testing, and technical design documentation
• Ensure solutions meet customer requirements, service levels and regulatory standards

• Fortinet SD-WAN design and delivery experience
• Fortinet FCSS certification essential
• Expert knowledge of FortiGate, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer
• Experience designing large-scale, resilient, multi-site networks
• Strong knowledge of firewalls, VPNs, segmentation and zero trust principles
• Ability to produce high-level and low-level designs and technical documentation
• Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and mentoring skills

• communication
• stakeholder management
• mentoring
• Fortinet SD-WAN design
• FortiGate
• FortiManager