Professional Services Consultant - UK
RemoteLondon, England, United Kingdom or United Kingdom
Job Summary
Fortinet Professional Services Consultant based in London (Moorgate) or UK-wide remote. The role involves on-site customer engagements with Fortinet’s Professional Services, delivering design, deployment, testing, verification, and operation services for Fortinet security solutions. Responsibilities include assisting during Think and Build phases, creating design/docs/templates/scripts, provisioning and validating Fortinet configurations, conducting interoperability testing, applying best practices, issue resolution/escalation, and knowledge transfer. Requires 7+ years in LAN/WAN/Network Security, FortiGate design/implementation or equivalent third-party security solutions, complex routing/WAN (BGP/OSPF), MPLS/L3VPN, MSSP/multi-tenant experience, scripting/automation, strong communication and documentation skills, and a university degree or equivalent experience. Opportunities for training and career growth, flexible work arrangements, and a global customer base (660,000+).
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in LAN/WAN/Network Security Products
- Experience with designing and implementing FortiGate solutions (design and implementation) or major 3rd party security solutions
- Experience in complex routing and WAN environments where BGP, OSFP is a requirement
- Work experience in maintaining, deploying or designing MPLS networks in particular L3 VPN
- Exposure to MSSP or managed service environments (Multi-tenancy, monitoring, reporting, supportability)
- Experience in scripting and automation (e.g. ZTP, integration into orchestrator, controllers and dashboard)
- Excellent communication and technical documentation skills
- Proven ability to work independently as well as in a team in a collaborative environment
- University Degree in technical or management discipline and/or equivalent extensive work-related experience
Desired Qualifications
- 7+ years in LAN/WAN/Network Security
- Experience with Fortinet FortiGate design and deployment
- MSSP or managed services exposure
- Scripting and automation experience
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration
- University Degree in technical or management discipline
- Flexible work arrangements
- Security infrastructure testing and verification
- Vendor expertise in security design
- Interoperability/integration testing
- Customer-focused consulting
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Think-and-build project support
- Knowledge of BGP/OSPF and WAN design
- Experience with MPLS/L3VPN
- Think and Build project support
- Knowledge transfer to client staff
- Fortinet product line competencies
- Remote-ready with UK presence
- Certification in network security (optional)
- Exposure to design and deployment best practices
- Stakeholder management and customer service
- Automation tooling and orchestration exposure
- Public sector or enterprise networks familiarity
- Multi-tenant managed environments familiarity
- Configuration templates and script development
- Technical documentation standards
- Quality-focused service delivery
- Professional services delivery mindset
- UK market/regulatory awareness
- London office familiarity
- Remote work readiness in the UK
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