Role Overview
Providence is looking for an experienced Principal Fortinet Network Security Engineer to design, implement, operate, and optimize enterprise-grade Fortinet security platforms across hybrid and cloud-connected environments.
This role will provide technical leadership for Fortinet firewall operations, policy management, secure connectivity, threat prevention, platform lifecycle, incident support, security architecture alignment, and operational maturity across the workplace.
The engineer will help strengthen network security posture by ensuring secure, resilient, compliant, and scalable Fortinet deployments while supporting change governance, incident response, risk reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, configuration, and support of Fortinet security platforms, including FortiGate, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer.
Own enterprise firewall policy lifecycle activities, including rule creation, rule review, rule optimization, NAT, routing, VPN, segmentation, and policy hygiene.




Lead L3/L4 troubleshooting for complex firewall, VPN, routing, connectivity, application access, certificate, and performance issues.
Architect and enforce secure network access controls across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-connected environments.
Manage Fortinet platform upgrades, firmware lifecycle, patching, HA failover testing, configuration backups, and platform hardening.
Analyze Fortinet logs, traffic flows, blocked sessions, IPS/IDS alerts, VPN logs, and security events to support incident response and operational troubleshooting.
Partner with SOC, Network, Cloud, IAM, Infrastructure, and application teams to resolve complex security and connectivity issues.
Drive firewall rule cleanup, risk reduction, configuration standardization, access control improvements, and least privilege enforcement.
Review and validate firewall changes to ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, regulatory expectation

📌 Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 providence
📍 Hyderabad