Senior Network Engineer (Fortinet) - Liverpool

Senior Network Engineer (Fortinet)

Up to £470 per day (Umbrella) with Potential Flexibility for the Right Candidate | Initial 6-Month Contract (Extension Highly Likely) | Liverpool (Hybrid)

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join their infrastructure team on an initial 6-month contract, with great potential for extensions.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on supporting, maintaining, troubleshooting and enhancing a complex enterprise network environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the stability, security and performance of critical network infrastructure while supporting both operational and project-based activities.

Location & Working Arrangements

Liverpool based

Hybrid working model with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite

Monday to Friday

Free onsite parking

Occasional out-of-hours work to support planned changes, maintenance activities and major incidents

Key Responsibilities

Provide BAU support, maintenance and proactive monitoring across the network infrastructure

Troubleshoot and resolve network incidents, service degradations and outages

Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes

Administer and support FortiGate firewall environments

Implement approved network changes, upgrades and security improvements

Work closely with infrastructure, server and security teams to deliver technical projects

Maintain high standards of documentation and operational procedures

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong hands-on experience administering FortiGate firewalls

Security policy management, VPNs, remote access and firewall troubleshooting

Enterprise-scale LAN/WAN support and administration

Data centre networking experience

Routing and switching expertise

Strong knowledge of

TCP/IP

VLANs

DHCP

DNS

NTP

OSPF

BGP

Network monitoring, diagnostics and performance optimisation

Incident investigation and problem management

High availability and resilient network architectures

Network segmentation and security zoning

Disaster recovery and business continuity networking

Load balancing and failover technologies

Desirable Certifications

Fortinet FCP / NSE

CCNP Enterprise

ITIL Foundation

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If you are an experienced Network Engineer with strong Fortinet expertise and experience supporting enterprise network environments, we would be keen to hear from you.

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