Principal Fortinet Engineer

In this Principal Engineer role, you own the design and delivery of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions for enterprise and public sector clients. You will act as the Fortinet technical authority and mentor engineers while shaping resilient, multi-site network architectures. The role blends hands-on technical work with design ownership, lab testing, and technical documentation in a hybrid-working setup. You will contribute to complex projects, ensuring security, performance, and regulatory alignment while leading technical leadership initiatives.

• car allowance
• private healthcare
• 26 days paid holiday
• pension
• training & development
• salary bracket 75,000 - 87,000

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions
• Design scalable, resilient multi-site network architectures
• Serve as Fortinet technical authority for complex design and support issues
• Mentor engineers and architects on 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 documentation
• Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and mentoring skills

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• mentoring
• FortiGate
• FortiManager
• FortiAnalyzer