Fortinet SASE and SD-WAN Engineer
Zappsec Technologies Inc.

About the role
Zappsec designs and operates secure edge platforms for mid-market and enterprise clients. This role owns the Fortinet side of that work.
This role focuses on secure access, which means FortiSASE and Zero Trust Network Access. The other focuses on wide area networking, which means Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. Both sit on FortiOS, FortiManager, and the same routing and IPsec foundation.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You will be in the consoles and the command line every day. You will not coordinate vendors or supervise other people's configuration work.

Certification requirement
Fortinet certification at NSE 5 level or above is mandatory for this role. This is a hard requirement, not a preference.Fortinet has renamed its program twice in recent years, so read this before you rule yourself out.
- Certifications issued between October 2023 and July 2026 used the FCP, FCSS, and FCX names. FCP covered the NSE 4 to NSE 6 band. FCSS mapped to NSE 7. FCX mapped to NSE 8.




- Fortinet returned to NSE 1 through NSE 8 numbering in July 2026.
- If your certification sits at NSE 5 or higher under either naming, you meet the requirement.

What every engineer in this role owns
- Firewall policy, NAT, security profiles, and virtual domains on FortiGate.
- IPsec overlay design and troubleshooting, including behaviour under failure.
- BGP and the routing policy that decides which path traffic takes.
- FortiManager administration, including administrative domains, policy packages, and templates.
- Configuration through change control, with a written rollback plan for every window.
- Troubleshooting with packet captures, FortiOS diagnose commands, and session analysis.
- Fortinet TAC cases, opened and driven to resolution.
- High level designs, low level designs, runbooks, and as-built records.
- Knowledge transfer so the client team can operate what you built.

SASE and secure access
FortiSASE build and policy

📌 Fortinet SASE and SD-WAN Engineer (India)
🏢 Zappsec
📍 India