What are the responsibilities and job description for the Deployment Engineer position at NextGen IT Inc.?
Job Title: Deployment Engineer
Location: Cary, NC(Onsite)
Duration: Long term contract
We are seeking a Deployment Engineer to be part of a multi-squad network transformation initiative focused on migrating enterprise security infrastructure from Check Point to Fortinet technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for Check Point to Fortinet migration activities
- Take part in deployment, configuration, and optimization of FortiGate firewalls
- Analyze existing Check Point firewall policies, VPNs, NAT configurations, and security architecture
- Coordinate migration planning, execution, testing, and rollback strategies
- Work closely with NetDevOps and SRE teams to support automation and operational improvements
- Participate in maintenance windows, change management, and production rollouts
- Ensure all migration work follows enterprise security and compliance standards
Required Skills
- 3 years of network deployment or network security engineering experience
- Fortinet FortiGate experience
- Check Point firewall administration experience
- Experience with firewall migration projects
- Cisco routing and switching expertise
- VPN technologies (IPSec, SSL VPN, Site-to-Site VPN)
- FortiManager and centralized policy management
- Firewall policy analysis and migration
- High Availability (HA) firewall deployments
- Strong troubleshooting skills
Preferred Skills
- Fortinet NSE 4/5/7 certifications
- CCNP or CCNP Security
- Arista networking experience
- Python automation experience
- Financial services experience