Senior Network Security Engineer- F5 & Cloud

Job Description 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
• Strong routing expertise: BGP, OSPF
• Real-world troubleshooting experience under SLA pressure

Certifications (Preferred):

• PCNSE
• NSE 7 / NSE 8
• F5-CA / F5-CTS