Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sterling is a company focused on providing network solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Network Consultant to support federal customers with secure network infrastructure. The role involves hands-on assessment, design, deployment, optimization, and troubleshooting of Fortinet technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery sessions with federal customers to understand mission requirements, existing network architecture, security posture, operational constraints, and modernization objectives
- Develop Fortinet-based network and security designs that align with customer requirements, federal operating environments, and Sterling delivery standards
- Configure, deploy, validate, and optimize Fortinet solutions across firewall, switching, wireless, VPN, SD-WAN, segmentation, authentication, logging, and centralized management use cases
- Troubleshoot complex network and security issues across routing, switching, firewall policy, VPN, high availability, SD-WAN, and Fortinet Security Fabric integrations
- Produce clear technical documentation, including implementation plans, configuration guides, migration plans, diagrams, as-built documentation, and customer knowledge-transfer materials
- Partner with Sterling sales and engineering teams to shape Fortinet-focused solutions for federal customers
- Support solution validation, whiteboarding, demonstrations, proof-of-concept planning, and technical responses for customer opportunities
- Explain complex Fortinet networking and security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear, practical manner
- Advise customers on network modernization, Zero Trust network access, secure SD-WAN, segmentation, cloud connectivity, and security operations considerations
- Collaborate with Fortinet and other vendor partners to validate architectures, resolve technical issues, and align recommendations to product capabilities and customer outcomes
- Proven ability to lead technical workshops, create implementation plans, perform migrations, conduct knowledge transfer, and communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders
Skills
- Must have Federal Civilian, DoD, IC, or public sector experience
- Deep, hands-on experience with Fortinet solutions, including FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiClient/EMS, FortiAuthenticator, FortiNAC, FortiWeb, secure SD-WAN, VPN, segmentation, high availability, logging, monitoring, and enterprise/federal security architecture
- Understanding of how to design, implement, and troubleshoot secure network environments that support federal requirements for modernization, resilience, Zero Trust adoption, compliance, and mission operations
- Ability to lead technical discovery sessions with federal customers to understand mission requirements, existing network architecture, security posture, operational constraints, and modernization objectives
- Develop Fortinet-based network and security designs that align with customer requirements, federal operating environments, and Sterling delivery standards
- Configure, deploy, validate, and optimize Fortinet solutions across firewall, switching, wireless, VPN, SD-WAN, segmentation, authentication, logging, and centralized management use cases
- Troubleshoot complex network and security issues across routing, switching, firewall policy, VPN, high availability, SD-WAN, and Fortinet Security Fabric integrations
- Produce clear technical documentation, including implementation plans, configuration guides, migration plans, diagrams, as-built documentation, and customer knowledge-transfer materials
- Partner with Sterling sales and engineering teams to shape Fortinet-focused solutions for federal customers
- Support solution validation, whiteboarding, demonstrations, proof-of-concept planning, and technical responses for customer opportunities
- Explain complex Fortinet networking and security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear, practical manner
- Advise customers on network modernization, Zero Trust network access, secure SD-WAN, segmentation, cloud connectivity, and security operations considerations
- Collaborate with Fortinet and other vendor partners to validate architectures, resolve technical issues, and align recommendations to product capabilities and customer outcomes
- Deep hands-on experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiClient/EMS, FortiAuthenticator, FortiNAC, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, and related Fortinet Security Fabric capabilities
- Ability to design, implement, migrate, and troubleshoot next-generation firewall policies, NAT, UTM profiles, IPS, application control, SSL inspection, routing, and high availability
- Experience designing and supporting Fortinet secure SD-WAN, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, remote access, multi-site connectivity, and resilient WAN architectures
- Strong understanding of routing protocols, switching, VLANs, segmentation, wireless architectures, NAC, QoS, and network troubleshooting in enterprise and federal environments
- Proven ability to lead technical workshops, create implementation plans, perform migrations, conduct knowledge transfer, and communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders
- Experience with adjacent infrastructure and security vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, Dell, HPE/Aruba, VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat
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