Network Engineer

Palo Alto | Fortinet | F5

Role Summary

Architecture & Service Design

- Define standard reference architectures for managed firewall, SD-WAN, VPN, WAF, and load-balancing services.
- Design multi-tenant, scalable, repeatable architectures across customers.
- Own HLD/LLD templates used by delivery and operations teams.
- Ensure architectures align with SLA, RTO, RPO, and supportability constraints.

Platform Ownership (Critical)

- Act as technical owner for:
- Palo Alto (NGFW, Panorama, VM-Series)
- Fortinet (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, SD-WAN)
- F5 BIG-IP (LTM, ASM/WAF, APM)

- Define

- HA standards

- Upgrade and patching strategy

- Backup and rollback models
- Eliminate snowflake deployments.

SLA & Service Governance

- Design services to meet or exceed SLAs (availability, latency, security).
- Define KPIs and SLOs for network and security services.

- Participate in

- Service reviews

- Incident reviews

- Customer technical governance calls

Multi-Customer & Multi-Vendor Complexity





- Handle dozens of customer environments with different constraints.
- Design coexistence of Palo Alto + Fortinet + F5 in shared environments.
- Balance security, cost, and operability not vendor purity.

Cloud & Hybrid Architect managed security services across:

- AWS, Azure, GCP

- Design
- Hub-and-spoke / transit architectures
- Secure cloud connectivity (IPsec, SSL, Direct Connect / ExpressRoute where applicable)
- Integrate cloud-native services with Palo Alto VM-Series, FortiGate VM, F5 VE.

Required Experience (Hard Filters)

You must have

- 5+ years in network/security engineering
- Proven ownership of 247 production environments
- Deep hands-on experience with:

- Palo Alto Networks

- Fortinet
- F5 BIG-IP
- Robust routing expertise: BGP, OSPF
- Real-world troubleshooting experience under SLA pressure

Certifications (Preferred)
- PCNSE
- NSE 7 / NSE 8
- F5-CA / F5-CTS

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